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Far Out - Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal (Hardcover)
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Far Out - Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal (Hardcover)
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Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last
untouched place and repository of redemptive power and wisdom.
Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, mountain climbers
diverse groups of people have traveled there over the years,
searching for their own personal Shangri-La. In Far Out, Mark
Liechty traces the Western fantasies that captured the imagination
of tourists in the decades after World War II, asking how the idea
of Nepal shaped the everyday cross-cultural interactions that it
made possible. Emerging from centuries of political isolation but
eager to engage the world, Nepalis struggled to make sense of the
hordes of exotic, enthusiastic foreigners. They quickly embraced
the phenomenon, however, and harnessed it to their own ends by
building tourists' fantasies into their national image and crafting
Nepal as a premier tourist destination. Liechty describes three
distinct phases: the postwar era, when the country provided a
Raj-like throwback experience for rich Americans; Nepal's emergence
as an exotic outpost of hippie counterculture in the 1960s; and its
rebranding into a hip adventure destination, which began in the
1970s and continues today. He shows how Western projections of
Nepal as an isolated place inspired creative enterprises and,
paradoxically, allowed locals to participate in the global economy.
Based on twenty-five years of research, Far Out blends ethnographic
analysis, a lifelong passion for Nepal, and a touch of humor to
produce the first comprehensive history of what tourists looked for
and found on the road to Kathmandu.
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