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Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
About the Authors
Reviews
"This refreshing, honest-to-life portrayal of ethnographic moments makes this an essential book for anyone interested in understanding contemporary issues in the Himalayas and changing human-cryosphere relationships. . . . Gagné demonstrates that the region becomes meaningful through the entanglements of land, animals, and humans. In "[A]n evocative ethnography of how the Tibetan Buddhist Ladakhis on the borderlands of India's northwestern frontier have coped with the dramatic changes in the context of their lives since the 1947 partition of India. [A] profoundly compelling story of how globalization, conflict, and climate change have transformed people and, yes, glaciers."—Journal of Anthropological Research "[A]n eloquent ethnographic exploration of how ethics and morality are cultivated through the everyday practices of living in the high desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas."—Anthropologica "[A] unique integrative account of generational and climate resiliency in the Himalayas."—Anthropological Quarterly "[A] rich and timely ethnography exploring the ethical dimen-sion of human entanglement with the nonhuman world...The great strength of
Endorsements
"A timely and important foregrounding of the complex assemblage of human environmental relationships in the Himalayas."—Mona Bhan, coauthor of Climate without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene
"Karine Gagné offers a perceptive and ethnographically rich monograph to the growing field of borderlands studies in high Asia and boosts our awareness of the Human-Nature bond on these margins."—Jean Michaud, coauthor of Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
Paperback / softback | |
February 5, 2019 | |
9780295744001 | |
English | |
258 | |
19 b&w illus., 2 maps | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
.8 Pounds (US) | |
$32.00 USD, £22.99 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Hardback | |
February 5, 2019 | |
9780295744018 | |
English | |
258 | |
19 b&w illus., 2 maps | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
1.05 Pounds (US) | |
$105.00 USD, £76.00 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Other Titles by Karine Gagné
Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds
Other Titles by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Fukushima Futures
Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Sustaining Natures
Other Titles by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Fukushima Futures
Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
Sustaining Natures
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Conjuring Property
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