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024	7		_a10.9783/9780812204759 _2doi
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035			_a(DE-B1597)449273
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082	0	4	_a305.8/00954
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aAlter, Joseph S. _eautore
245	1	0	_aKnowing Dil Das : _bStories of a Himalayan Hunter / _cJoseph S. Alter.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2011]
264		4	_c©2000
300			_a1 online resource (216 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aContemporary Ethnography
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tPart I. Bal Kand / The Book of Childhood -- _tChapter 1. Dil Das-Enslaved Heart -- _tChapter 2. Woodstock School: Protestants, Peasants, and Ethics -- _tChapter 3. A Tiger's Tale -- _tPart II. Aranya Kand / The Forest Book -- _tChapter 4. Coapman's Fall -- _tChapter 5. Hearts of Darkness -- _tChapter 6. Land Masters: Purebred History -- _tPart III. Shram Kand / The Book of Labor -- _tChapter 7. Dairying: An Untold Story -- _tChapter 8. Slippage: Out of Work, Through Hunting -- _tChapter 9. The Terms of Friendship -- _tPart IV. Uttarkhand / Himalaya -- _tChapter 10. The Heart of the Matter -- _tChapter 11. A Hybrid History of Encounter -- _tGlossary -- _tNotes -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aDil Das was a poor farmer-an untouchable-living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with their sons. The basis for these friendships was a common passion for hunting. This passion and the friendships it made possible came to dominate Dil Das's life.When Joseph S. Alter, one of the boys who had hunted with Dil Das, became an adult and a scholar, he set out to write the life history of Dil Das as a way of exploring Garhwali peasant culture. But Alter found his friend uninterested in talking about traditional ethnographic subjects, such as community life, family, or work. Instead, Dil Das spoke almost exclusively about hunting with his American friends-telling endless tales about friendship and hunting that seemed to have nothing to do with peasant culture.When Dil Das died in 1986, Alter put the project away. Years later, he began rereading Dil Das's stories, this time from a completely new perspective. Instead of looking for information about peasant culture, he was able to see that Dil Das was talking against culture. From this viewpoint Dil Das's narrative made sense for precisely those reasons that had earlier seemed to render it useless-his apparent indifference toward details of everyday life, his obsession with hunting, and, above all, his celebration of friendship.To a degree in fact, but most significantly in Dil Das's memory, hunting served to merge his and the missionary boys' identities and, thereby, to supersede and render irrelevant all differences of class, caste, and nationality. For Dil Das the intimate experience of hunting together radically decentered the prevailing structure of power and enabled him to redefine himself outside the framework of normal social classification.Thus, Knowing Dil Das is not about peasant culture but about the limits of culture and history. And it is about the moral ambiguity of writing and living in a field of power where, despite intimacy, self and other are unequal.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650		0	_aCulture conflict _zIndia _vGarhwal.
650		0	_aCulture conflict _zIndia _zGarhwāl.
650		0	_aEthnology _zIndia _vGarhwal.
650		0	_aEthnology _zIndia _zGarhwāl.
650		0	_aFriendship _zIndia _vGarhwal.
650		0	_aFriendship _zIndia _zGarhwāl.
650		0	_aHunters _zIndia _vGarhwal _vBiography.
650		0	_aHunters _zIndia _zGarhwāl _vBiography.
650		0	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE _vAnthropology _vGeneral.
650		4	_aFolklore.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. _2bisacsh
653			_aAnthropology.
653			_aFolklore.
653			_aLinguistics.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204759
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204759
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812204759/original
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