The Gaddi beyond pastoralism : making place in the Indian Himalayas /

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The Gaddi of North India are agro-pastoralists who rear sheep and goats following a seasonal migration around the first Himalayan range. While studies on pastoralists have focused either on the pastoralists' adaptation to their physical environment or treated the environment from a symbolic per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagner, Anja, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Temas:
Gaddis (Indic people) > India, North.
Human ecology > India, North.
Gaddi (Peuple de l'Inde) > Inde (Nord)
Écologie humaine > Inde (Nord)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Ecology
Gaddis (Indic people)
Human ecology
India, North > Environmental conditions.
Himalaya Mountains Region > Environmental conditions.
Inde (Nord) > Conditions environnementales.
Himālaya > Conditions environnementales.
Himalaya Mountains Region
North India
Noord-India.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Spelling; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1
  • The Study of Environment Reconsidered; Chapter 2
  • The Gaddi in Images; Chapter 3
  • A Sheep for Shiva; Chapter 4
  • Doing Kinship, Doing Place; Chapter 5
  • Walking; Chapter 6
  • Visiting the Deities, Enacting the Mountains; Chapter 7
  • Environment and the Body: Understanding Water Change; Chapter 8
  • Cool Water, Short Green Grass, and Fir Trees: The Aesthetics of Environment; Conclusion: Doing Place; Appendix: Songs and Translations; Glossary; References; Index.

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