Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas, by Karine Gagne
The book under review is an ethnographic account of Ladakhi society. The author attempts to understand how people live in this high-altitude trans-Himalayan region in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (in 2019 Ladakh became a separate Union Territory) and make their living in close proxim...
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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebhr, |
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
2022
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | The book under review is an ethnographic account of Ladakhi society. The author attempts to understand how people live in this high-altitude trans-Himalayan region in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (in 2019 Ladakh became a separate Union Territory) and make their living in close proximity to nature. Living in the precarious natural setting of this cold desert gives rise to ‘the ethics of care’. However, the rapid socio-economic transformation of this society in the last six-seve... |
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