Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps and Photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction: In Pursuit of the Good Life -- Modern Langtang -- The Experience of Place -- Who Are the Langtangpa? -- The Setting -- Book Outline -- Chapter Two Zombie Slayers in a 'Hidden Valley' -- Sacred Geography: Langtang as Beyul ('Hidden Land') -- The Mukhiyä Clans -- Zombie Slayers in Langtang: Ascendancy of the Domar Clan -- Ideology Emplaced: Land, Ritual, Power -- Nara -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three Crossing Borders -- Crossing Borders (I): Langtang People on the Move -- Working the Land -- Crossing Borders (II): Development and Foreign Aid -- Establishing the National Park: Putting the Langtangpa in Place -- Chapter Four Being in the World and the Rituals of Life -- Avoiding dugpu, Attaining kipu -- Gender Complementarity: dgra lha and g.yang -- Tshe sgrub: 'Enhancing Life' -- Karma and the Wheel of Life -- Nyungne (bsmyung gnas) -- This Life, Next Life -- Chapter Five Embedding Bikäs in Everyday Life -- Emergence of a New Materiality -- Tourism for National Development -- Design of Hotels -- Articulation of Internal Design Elements -- Hotel, Status and Personal Identity -- Hotels as Political Sites -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six Romantic Dreams and Practical Lives -- Spirituality and Corruption -- Mutual Gazing and Imagining Practices -- Living in an Aestheticised Landscape -- The Foreignscapes: The Langtangpa's Counter-gaze -- Of Reverie and Emplacement -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven The Morality of Well-being -- Dippa (sgrib pa): Explaining Misfortune in Langtang -- The Case of Diminishing Potatoes, Or, Why Good Social Relations Are Important -- Mikha: Exorcism of Malicious Gossip -- Cooperative Ventures -- Desperately Seeking Synthesis -- Chapter Eight Conclusion: Place, History and the Good Life -- Spatial Experience and Social Relations.

The Good Life and the Practice of Development -- Glossary of Terms -- References -- Index.