| Description |
1 online resource (x, 202 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 perspective, this book offers a new, holistic perspective that analyzes the ways in which people "make" place. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book not only describes a contemporary understanding of the Gaddi's engagement with the environment but also analyzes religious practices and performances of s. |
| Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Terms Of Use |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
| Subject |
Gaddis (Indic people) -- India, North.
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Gaddis (Indic people) |
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North India. |
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Human ecology -- India, North.
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Human ecology. |
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India, North -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Himalaya Mountains Region -- Environmental conditions.
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Himalaya Mountains Region. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wagner, Anja. Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism, The : Making Place in the Indian Himalayas. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2013 9780857459299 |
| ISBN |
9780857459305 (electronic book) |
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0857459309 (electronic book) |
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0857459295 |
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9780857459299 |
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9780857459299 (hardback) |
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