Temple Tracks

<p> The notions of labour mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective <em>Temple Tracks</em> critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories recollections and 'traces'.</p>