Nostalgia in Ladakh: Reproducing the past in the present

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Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

Kaur, Sidak (2021)

Nostalgia in Ladakh: Reproducing the past in the present

Master thesis | Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

This thesis critically approaches the notion of nostalgia as a site for negotiating the way communities in Ladakh reproduce the past in the present. Multiple nostalgias are explored and the various nostalgic postures are unpacked as they encounter and engage with modernity. The aim is to understand through ethnographic analysis, the temporalities within which nostalgia occurs and the interplay between nostalgia and cultural practices that provide a site to study how the past is maintained in the present.

nostalgia

cultural reproduction

memory

identity

local agency

cultural transmission

social and cultural anthropology