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Introduction

Chapter 1. The study of environment reconsidered

• Rethinking nature and society – toward an anthropology of environment


• Between adaptation and ideology: Himalayan pastoralism in the literature

Chapter 2. The Gaddi in images

• Popular imagery


• Ethnographic representations


• Evaluation of popular representations

Chapter 3. A sheep for Shiva

• Living like Śiv-ji - Shiva and Gaddi identity


• A sheep for Shiva – the nuālā ritual


• Identity and performative creation of community

Chapter 4. Doing kinship, doing place

• Seasonal migration and ancestral villages


• Belonging to multiple places


• Ancestral villages and family deities


• Kinship and the inside space


• How children do kinship and plac


• Kinship, place and habitus


• Extending networks, accessing new territory


• The landscape of the Dhauladhar – from metaphor to practice


• Excursus: Walking

Chapter 5. Visiting the deities, enacting the mountains

• "Gaddi deities"


• "To go with a goat" – jāgrāand jātar


• Gūne Mātā and Bannī Mātā


• Enacting environment through movements


• High altitude lakes, nāg deities and the practice of nhauṇ


• Power of place – performing altitude

Chapter 6. Environment and the body – understanding "water change"

• The phenomenon of "water change"


• On the connection between person and place in India


• Ethnographic findings: The concept of ādat


• Getting attuned to place


• Water as a vehicle

Chapter 7. Cool water, short green grass and fir trees – the aesthetics of environment

• The aesthetics of environment


• "Good" places – the mountains revisited


• Environmental aesthetics in photographic motifs


• What is in a picture? Photography as socially defined practice


• Gaddi photography collections


• On the meaning of short green grass and fir trees

Conclusion: Doing place

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