The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism: Making Place in the Indian Himalayas

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 per...

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1. Verfasser: Wagner, Anja (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2013]
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (214 Seiten)
ISBN:9780857459305
DOI:10.1515/9780857459305

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