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Caring for Glaciers : Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas /

"Set in the high-altitude Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, Caring for Glaciers looks at the causes and consequences of a transformation in people's relationship with the environment. It illuminates how relations of care and reciprocity-learned through everyday life and work...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gagne, Karine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Morality and an ethics of care in the Himalayas
  • The loneliness of winter : continuity and change in the high mountains
  • Arthalis and beyond : a crack in the landscape
  • Becoming sentinel citizens : the reconfiguration of Ladakh into a border area
  • "Father white glacier" : incommensurable temporalities and eroding filial bond
  • Searching for Aba Stanzin : on the predicament of herders
  • Intimate glaciers and an ethics of care : mutual recessions
  • As glaciers vanish.