Screen LibraryCaring for glaciers : land, animals, and humanity in the Himalayas /
"Set in the high-altitude Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, Caring for Glaciers looks at the causes and consequences of a transformation in people's relationship with the environment. It illuminates how relations of care and reciprocity-learned through everyday life and work...
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University of Washington Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Seattle, DC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Culture, place, and nature: studies in anthropology and environment
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| Summary: |
"Set in the high-altitude Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, Caring for Glaciers looks at the causes and consequences of a transformation in people's relationship with the environment. It illuminates how relations of care and reciprocity-learned through everyday life and work in the mountains with the animals, glaciers, and deities that form Ladakh's sacred geography-shape and nurture an ethics of care for non-humans. The geopolitical context that has reconfigured Ladakh into a strategic border area in postcolonial India has transformed the fabric of everyday life. Simultaneousl |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780295744018 0295744014 9780295744001 0295744006 |
| Index Number: | GB2559 |
| CLC: |
Q988 P343.717.6 |
| Call Number: | P343.717.6/G135 |
| Contents: | Morality and an ethics of care in the Himalayas -- The loneliness of winter : continuity and change in the high mountains -- Arthalis and beyond : a crack in the landscape -- Becoming sentinel citizens : the reconfiguration of Ladakh into a border area -- "Father white glacier" : incommensurable temporalities and eroding filial bonds -- Searching for Aba Stanzin : on the predicament of herders -- Intimate glaciers and an ethics of care : mutual recessions -- As glaciers vanish. |