The Inner and Outer Selves
Cosmology, Gender, and Ecology In The Himalayas
Price: 1295.00
ISBN:
9780198079422
Publication date:
16/08/2013
Hardback
336 pages
226x147mm
Price: 1295.00
ISBN:
9780198079422
Publication date:
16/08/2013
Hardback
336 pages
Subhadra Mitra Channa
Rights: World Rights
Subhadra Mitra Channa
Description
The pastoral tribal community of the Jad Bhotiyas inhabit the Uttarkashi region of the Himalayas. For survival, they were engaged in trade across the Himalayan borders, especially of salt from the Tibetan plateau. Following the closure of the Indo-Tibetan border after the 1962 Indo-China war and the cessation of the Tibetan salt trade, these erstwhile transborder traders now find themselves caught in a complex world, forcing them to negotiate their identity. How do the Jads reorient their identities with the altering local and global environment? How do they differentiate between their inner and outer selves? How is their sense of personhood and self-hood influenced by their location, of being situated on the border of two countries, India and Tibet? Based on years of her personal interactions and research in the village of Bhagori in Garhwal, the author takes up a gendered approach to answer these questions. She discusses the qualitative aspects of the daily lives of the villagers and their rituals, cosmology, world views, aspirations, and cultural-historical processes of adapting to the changing political, economic, and social circumstances of these people. This important contribution to the field of border studies of the Himalayan frontiers will be central to those studying anthropology, sociology, political science, and history. Those interested in identity, gender, religion, ethnicity, and nationalism will also find this study useful.
Subhadra Mitra Channa
Features
- A one-of-its-kind ethnographic study of the Jad Bhotiyas of Uttarkashi
- Based on extensive fieldwork
- Discusses concepts like nationalism, identity, and democracy, among others
Subhadra Mitra Channa
Description
The pastoral tribal community of the Jad Bhotiyas inhabit the Uttarkashi region of the Himalayas. For survival, they were engaged in trade across the Himalayan borders, especially of salt from the Tibetan plateau. Following the closure of the Indo-Tibetan border after the 1962 Indo-China war and the cessation of the Tibetan salt trade, these erstwhile transborder traders now find themselves caught in a complex world, forcing them to negotiate their identity. How do the Jads reorient their identities with the altering local and global environment? How do they differentiate between their inner and outer selves? How is their sense of personhood and self-hood influenced by their location, of being situated on the border of two countries, India and Tibet? Based on years of her personal interactions and research in the village of Bhagori in Garhwal, the author takes up a gendered approach to answer these questions. She discusses the qualitative aspects of the daily lives of the villagers and their rituals, cosmology, world views, aspirations, and cultural-historical processes of adapting to the changing political, economic, and social circumstances of these people. This important contribution to the field of border studies of the Himalayan frontiers will be central to those studying anthropology, sociology, political science, and history. Those interested in identity, gender, religion, ethnicity, and nationalism will also find this study useful.
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