Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

by Arjun Guneratne (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $151.13

  Drawing on Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment, this book examines how the environment is conceptualized among different social groups in the region. It introduces the thinking in environmental anthropology and geography into the study of the Himalaya.