The Gaddi beyond pastoralism : making place in the Indian Himalayas / Anja Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Anja, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gaddis (Indic people)--India, North.

Gaddis (Indic people).

Human ecology--India, North.

Human ecology.

India, North--Environmental conditions.

India, North.

Himalaya Mountains Region--Environmental conditions.

Himalaya Mountains Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 soc

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857459305

0857459309

OCLC:

855505455