Overlapping worlds: cosmopolitics of yak herders in the Himalayas
This dissertation presents an ethnography of the relationships between herders and their yaks in a valley of Manang, northern central Nepal. Based on four periods of fieldwork totalling sixteen months, it argues that Manangi herders and their yaks jointly create their respective worlds to such an e...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2026
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | This dissertation presents an ethnography of the relationships between herders and their yaks in a valley of Manang, northern central Nepal. Based on four periods of fieldwork totalling sixteen months, it argues that Manangi herders and their yaks jointly create their respective worlds to such an extent that the conventional understandings of herding activities and domesticated animals have to be reconsidered. Its central argument is that nature and society are not opposing domains but funda... |
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