Caring for glaciers : land, animals, and humanity in the Himalayas

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Label

Caring for glaciers : land, animals, and humanity in the Himalayas

Title remainder

land, animals, and humanity in the Himalayas

Statement of responsibility

Karine Gagné

Creator

• Gagné, Karine,

Author

• Gagné, Karine,

Subject

• Glaciers
• Glaciers -- Himalaya Mountains Region
• Glaciers -- India | Ladākh
• Gletscher
• Himalaja
• Himalaya Mountains Region
• Human ecology
• Human ecology
• Humanökologie
• India -- Ladākh
• Ladakh
• Environmentalism
• Environmentalism

Language

eng

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. Simultaneously, the landscape of Ladakh is also being transformed by climate change. Ladakhi elders perceive this as a changing moral order, in which environmental depletion and social fragmentation are inextricably intertwined. As Glaciers Vanish contributes to the anthropology of ethics by examining the moral order that develops through the embodied experience of life and work in the Himalayas. While not divorced from Buddhist beliefs, this emerges not from religious doctrine but from beliefs and practices through which people engage with the environment. This book will be of interest to researchers in a variety of fields, including anthropology, geography, and sociology of religion. It will also appeal to scholars of Tibetan Buddhism and of borderland studies, to social scientists studying climate change, and to area studies specialists of India, South Asia, and the Himalayas"--

Member of

• Culture, place, and nature

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

GB2559.H56

LC item number

G34 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Culture, place, and nature: studies in anthropology and environment