The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism : : Making Place in the Indian Himalayas / / Anja Wagner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Wagner, Anja,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• প্রকাশনার বছর: 2013
• ভাষা: English
• দৈহিক বর্ননা: 1 online resource (214 p.)

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 perspect...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of 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