Momentous Mobilities: Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel (Worlds in Motion Book 4)

Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, __Momentous Mobilities__ disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life. Momentous Mobilities Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Introduction. Mapping Mobility Part I. Imagining Mobility Chapter 1. Chile Chapter 2. Indonesia Chapter 3. Tanzania Part II. Enacting Mobility Chapter 4. Education Chapter 5. Labor Chapter 6. Life's "Pilgrimage" Conclusion. Mobile Futures References Index Imagining mobility -- Chile : traveling to and from the end of the world -- Indonesia : Merantau and modernity -- Tanzania : the Maasai as icons of mobility -- Enacting mobility -- Education : leaving to learn -- Labor : capitalizing on movement -- Life's "pilgrimage" : travel, travail, transformation