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 Gaddis 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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Introduction
Chapter 1.The study of environment reconsidered
- Rethinking nature and society toward an anthropology of environment
- Between adaptation and ideology: Himalayan pastoralism in the literature
Chapter 2.The Gaddi in images
- Popular imagery
- Ethnographic representations
- Evaluation of popular representations
Chapter 3.A sheep for Shiva
- Living likeZiv-ji- Shiva and Gaddi identity
- A sheep for Shiva thenulritual
- Identity and performative creation of community
Chapter 4.Doing kinship, doing place
- Seasonal migration and ancestral villages
- Belonging to multiple places
- Ancestral villages and family deities
- Kinship and the inlS6
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