Sacred Geography: A Visual Case Study of the Socio-Economic Infrastructure Network Behind a Hindu Pilgrimage

This is an illustrative, exploratory, critical instance case study that describes events and socio-economic networks at a Hindu pilgrimage site in Janki Chatti, Uttarakhand, India. I consider the micro-infrastructure (local human service infrastructure) required to support the immense number of pilgrims. I utilized social network analysis, participant observation, and unstructured interviews to investigate the behind-the-scenes human dynamics that go into moving thousands of people each day up a mountain canyon for 5 km (3.1 mi) to Yamunotri, a sacred Hindu temple housing the image of the goddess Yamuna, and back down 5 km.

The results of the study are housed on my blog site at: https://yamunadeepmap.blogspot.com/2022/07/sacred-geography-visual-case-study.html