Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas (eBook, ePUB)

Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability
Redaktion: Smyer Yü, Dan; de Maaker, Erik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities, featuring case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000397581
• Artikelnr.: 61466920

Autorenporträt

Dan Smyer Yü is Kuige Professor of Ethnology in the School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University Kunming, China. Erik de Maaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Situating Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: An Introduction
Dan Smyer Yü Part I Kindred of the Earth
Deities
Humans and Animals 1. Relatedness
Trans-species Knots
and Yak Personhood in the Bhutan Highlands
Jelle J.P. Wouters 2. Lepcha Water View and Climate Change in Sikkim Himalaya
Charisma K. Lepcha 3. Eco-spiritual and Economic Perceptions in Bhutan's Haa District
Thinley Dema Part II Aqueous Earth 4. Narratives from A Fluvial World: Poetics of Charland Dwelling in a Neocolonial Assam
Bhagarbi Das 5. Painting the Genesis of the Lepcha: A World Emerging from Water Spirits
Rongnyoo Lepcha and Mongfing Lepcha 6. Muddying the Waters: The Invention and Enclosure of Tibet's Wetlands
Ruth Gamble Part III Evolving Cosmovisions
Climate Change and Community Resilience 7. Aloof but not Abandoned: Relationality and the Exploitation of the Environment in the Garo Hills of India
Erik de Maaker 8. Cordyceps
Climate Change and Cosmological Imbalance in the Bhutan highlands
Kinley Choki 9. Local Knowledge of Floods and Coping Strategies in Downstream Mahakali River
Nepal
Rashila Deshar
Dibas Shrestha
Sarina Maharjan and Madan Koirala Part IV Transboundary Environmentality and Indigenous Commoning 10. Indigenous Irrigation System Linking People
Place and the Planet: the Practice of jamfwi on the India-Bhutan Borderlands
Anwesha Dutta and Shailendra Yashwant 11. Rajaki: An Indigenous Approach to Commoning in Hunza
Pakistan
Zainab Khalid 12. Transboundary Environments
Militarization and Minoritization: Reimagining International Relations in the Himalaya from Ladakh
India
Alexander Davis 13. Symbiotic Indigeneity and Commoning in the Anthropogenic Himalayas
Dan Smyer Yü Conclusion: Indigenous Heritages and Sacred Earth
John Grim