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This volume brings together contributions from different parts of the world to show the multiple ways in which women manage their resources, while simultaneously providing for their families.
The essays, based on recent anthropological research in diverse societies across ecological zones-the Himalayan border, Kentucky (USA), Tanzania, Norway, and Gujarat-deal with issues of knowledge management, social control and hierarchy, responses during disasters, and the ...
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 ...
This book re-examines some of the theoretical debates centring on culture and its manifestations in the material world; that is also perceived as gendered. The papers presented here examine the variety of manifestations of the concepts of materialism and take a critical look at the notion of an ?object?, showing that ?object? is a manifestation and a construct, both symbolic and rooted in praxis.