Aparna Rao ; Michael J Casimir creator Michael J Casimir text ;Nomads New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2003 monographic eng

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xvi, 543 pages ; 22 cm. Nomadism in South Asia: An Introduction / Aparna Rao and Michael J. Casimir -- I. Nomadic Settings and Frontiers: Aspects and Perspectives -- 1. The Historical Framework of Nomadism in South Asia: A Brief Overview / Michael J. Casimir and Aparna Rao -- 2. The Development of the Kalat Khanate / Nina Swidler -- 3. Pastoral Nomadism in a West Himalayan Valley: Sustainability and Herd Management / Michael J. Casimir -- 4. Servicing the Ordinary Folk: Peripatetic Peoples and their Niche in South Asia / Joseph C. Berland -- 5. Bicultural Oscillation as a Long-term adaptation to Cultural Frontiers: Cases and Questions / Peter M. Gardner -- II. Nomadism, Resources, and Rights to Access -- 6. Hunter-Gatherers and the Politics of Environment and Development in India / G. Prakash Reddy -- 7. Access to Pasture: Concepts, Constraints, and Practice in the Kashmir Himalayas / Aparna Rao -- 8. Policy, Property, and Access: Shepherd Land-Use in the Western Himalayas / Vasant K. Saberwal -- 9. Boundaries, Obligations, and Reciprocity: Levels of Territoriality among the Cholanaickan of South India / B. Ananda Bhanu -- III. The Practice of Migration: A Spectrum of Adaptations -- 10. The Organization of Transhumance in the Nepal Himalayas: Sherpa Yak-Keeping in Khumbu / Barbara Brower -- 11. Verticality, Multiple Resource Utilization and Subsistence Economy in the Karakorum Mountains: The Case of the Transhumant Hunzakut / H. M. Sidky -- 12. Trade in Far West Nepal: The Economic Adaptation of the Peripatetic Humli-Khyampa / Hanna Rauber-Schweizer -- 13. The Dhangar: A Nomadic Pastoral Community in a Developing Agricultural Environment / Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer -- 14. Banjaras / C. H. Childers -- 15. Indigenous Decision-Making and Hierarchy in Migrating Pastoralist Collectives: The Raika of Western India / Arun Agrawal -- 16. Conflicts and Relations of Power between Peripatetics and Villagers in South Asia / Robert M. Hayden. /Aparna Rao Social Sciences 305.9069180954 RAO 0195657454 190816 20190816150626.0