The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism : : Making Place in the Indian Himalayas / / Anja Wagner.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Argitaratze-urtea: | 2013 |
| Hizkuntza: | English |
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- 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