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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gagné, Karine, author.
Imprint:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 231 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Culture, place, and nature: studies in anthropology and environment Culture, place, and nature.
Subject:	Glaciers -- Himalaya Mountains Region. Glaciers -- India -- Ladākh. Human ecology. Environmentalism. Environmentalism. Glaciers. Human ecology. Himalaya Mountains Region. India -- Ladākh.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12020121

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ISBN:	0295744022 9780295744025 9780295744018 0295744014
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2019).
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Gagné, Karine. Caring for glaciers. Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295744018

Table of Contents:

Morality and an ethics of care in the Himalayas
The loneliness of winter : continuity and change in the high mountains
Arthalis and beyond : a crack in the landscape
Becoming sentinel citizens : the reconfiguration of Ladakh into a border area
"Father white glacier" : incommensurable temporalities and eroding filial bond
Searching for Aba Stanzin : on the predicament of herders
Intimate glaciers and an ethics of care : mutual recessions
As glaciers vanish.

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

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