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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857459299
  • 9780857459305
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8914/96 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • DS432.G275 W34 2013
  • DS432.G275
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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 social relations, as well as media practices and notions of aesthetics. Thereby, the landscape in which the Gaddi live is understood as a network of places that is constantly being built and rebuilt through these local practices. The book contributes to the growing interest in approaches of practice within environmental anthropology.
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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

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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 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 social relations, as well as media practices and notions of aesthetics. Thereby, the landscape in which the Gaddi live is understood as a network of places that is constantly being built and rebuilt through these local practices. The book contributes to the growing interest in approaches of practice within environmental anthropology.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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