Himalayan histories : economy, polity, religious traditions /
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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SUNY Press,
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | SUNY series in Hindu studies |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Defining spaces, constructing identities : Regional history and the Himalaya -- Defining community : Territory and transformation in the Western Himalaya -- Geography, religion, and hegemony : Constructing the state in the Western Himalaya -- Nature, religion, and politics : Keonthal and Kumharsain -- Myth, legend, and folklore in Himalayan society -- The Dum : Community consciousness, peasant resistance, or political intrigue? -- Between two worlds : the trader pastoralists of Kinnaur -- Strategy of interdependence : Gaddi, peasant, and state -- Migration and trade in mountain societies -- Pastoralism and the making of colonial modernity in Kulu 1850-1952 -- Diverse forms of polyandry, customary rights of inheritance, and landownership in the Western Himalaya-- Thresholds in the wilderness : Identities, interests and modernity in Western Himalayan borderlands -- Riverbank to hilltop : pre-colonial towns and the impact of British rule on urban growth.