Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

List of Tables

pp.：  9 – 10

List of Maps and Photographs

pp.：  11 – 12

Acknowledgements

pp.：  13 – 14

Chapter One Introduction: In Pursuit of the Good Life

pp.：  15 – 44

Modern Langtang

pp.：  22 – 27

The Experience of Place

pp.：  28 – 31

Who Are the Langtangpa?

pp.：  32 – 34

The Setting

pp.：  35 – 38

Book Outline

pp.：  39 – 44

Chapter Two Zombie Slayers in a 'Hidden Valley'

pp.：  45 – 72

Sacred Geography: Langtang as Beyul ('Hidden Land')

pp.：  47 – 51

The Mukhiyä Clans

pp.：  52 – 53

Zombie Slayers in Langtang: Ascendancy of the Domar Clan

pp.：  54 – 58

Ideology Emplaced: Land, Ritual, Power

pp.：  59 – 65

Nara

pp.：  66 – 70

Conclusion

pp.：  71 – 72

Chapter Three Crossing Borders

pp.：  73 – 102

Crossing Borders (I): Langtang People on the Move

pp.：  77 – 82

Working the Land

pp.：  83 – 88

Crossing Borders (II): Development and Foreign Aid

pp.：  89 – 93

Establishing the National Park: Putting the Langtangpa in Place

pp.：  94 – 102

Chapter Four Being in the World and the Rituals of Life

pp.：  103 – 126

Avoiding dugpu, Attaining kipu

pp.：  104 – 106

Gender Complementarity: dgra lha and g.yang

pp.：  107 – 113

Tshe sgrub: 'Enhancing Life'

pp.：  114 – 116

Karma and the Wheel of Life

pp.：  117 – 118

Nyungne (bsmyung gnas)

pp.：  119 – 121

This Life, Next Life

pp.：  122 – 126

Chapter Five Embedding Bikäs in Everyday Life

pp.：  127 – 150

Emergence of a New Materiality

pp.：  128 – 130

Tourism for National Development

pp.：  131 – 135

Design of Hotels

pp.：  136 – 137

Articulation of Internal Design Elements

pp.：  138 – 137

Hotel, Status and Personal Identity

pp.：  138 – 144

Hotels as Political Sites

pp.：  145 – 148

Conclusion

pp.：  149 – 150

Chapter Six Romantic Dreams and Practical Lives

pp.：  151 – 182

Spirituality and Corruption

pp.：  151 – 153

Mutual Gazing and Imagining Practices

pp.：  154 – 157

Living in an Aestheticised Landscape

pp.：  158 – 170

The Foreignscapes: The Langtangpa's Counter-gaze

pp.：  171 – 178

Of Reverie and Emplacement

pp.：  179 – 180

Conclusion

pp.：  181 – 182

Chapter Seven The Morality of Well-being

pp.：  183 – 208

Dippa (sgrib pa): Explaining Misfortune in Langtang

pp.：  184 – 191

The Case of Diminishing Potatoes, Or, Why Good Social Relations Are Important

pp.：  192 – 201

Mikha: Exorcism of Malicious Gossip

pp.：  202 – 204

Cooperative Ventures

pp.：  205 – 206

Desperately Seeking Synthesis

pp.：  207 – 208

Chapter Eight Conclusion: Place, History and the Good Life

pp.：  209 – 226

Spatial Experience and Social Relations

pp.：  210 – 215

The Good Life and the Practice of Development

pp.：  216 – 226

Glossary of Terms

pp.：  227 – 232

References

pp.：  233 – 242

Index

pp.：  243 – 248