Rhythms of a Himalayan Village
Author | : Hugh R. Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nepal |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugh R. Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nepal |
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Author | : John Crook |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 2001-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788120812017 |
Preface, PART One: Introduction to the Philosophy of Navya-Nyaya, PART Two: Summaries of Works, Notes, Index.
Author | : Chetan Singh |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-12-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438475217 |
A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas. Himalayan Histories, by one of Indias most reputed historians of the Himalaya, is essential for a more complete understanding of Indian history. Because Indian historians have mainly studied riverine belts and life in the plains, sophisticated mountain histories are relatively rare. In this book, Chetan Singh identifies essential aspects of the material, mental, and spiritual world of western Himalayan peasant society. Human enterprise and mountainous terrain long existed in a precarious balance, occasionally disrupted by natural adversity, in this large and difficult region. Small peasant communities lived in scattered environmental niches and tenaciously extracted from their harsh surroundings a rudimentary but sustainable livelihood. These communities were integral constituents of larger political economies that asserted themselves through institutions of hegemonic control, the state being one such institution. This laboriously created life-world was enlivened by myth, folklore, legend, and religious tradition. When colonial rule was established in the region during the nineteenth century, it transformed the peasants relationship with their natural surroundings. While old political allegiances were weakened, resilient customary hierarchies retained their influence through religio-cultural practices.
Author | : Geoffrey Gorer |
Publisher | : Pilgrims Book House |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9788177693126 |
High in the Himalayas between Nepal and Bhutan is the small Kingdom of Sikkim. In these lofty isolated foothills live a people who have developed a unique way of life. These are the clans of the Lepcha people.
Author | : Sally Wendkos Olds |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002-09-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781462099955 |
After trekking in Nepal, Sally Wendkos Olds and Margaret Roche both fell in love with this mountainous Himalayan country and her people. They returned four times between 1993 and 1998 and spent time in Bedel, a remote hill village without electricity, telephone or roads. They helped establish a library there, and on each visit Olds, a writer, and Roche, an artist, were welcomed enthusiastically as "our relatives." Each time they came to Badel, they returned home with questions about their own lives. Here, in words and pictures, is their story of the Badel villagers and their fast disappearing ancient way of life.
Author | : Geoffrey Gorer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains Region |
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Author | : Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains |
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A new edition, carefully revised and condensed.
Author | : David Satterthwaite |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2014-04-23 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1134172850 |
Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid agencies. Ironically, the problems can be traced back to matters which can be treated straightforwardly and at relatively low cost - poor drinking water or food, or infectious diseases which can be controlled. This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. It also explains what can be done, by communities as well as governments and aid workers, to provide safe and healthy environments for children. The book looks at conditions in a range of cities in the developing world, as well as pollutants and other health problems affecting children in the North. Published in association with UNICEF, and written by some of the same authors as Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (Earthscan, 1993), this provides excellent course material, and will be useful for practitioners working on child development, infant and maternal health, environmental health and community development. David Satterthwaite is Director of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and principal author of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (1993) and Squatter Citizen(1989).
Author | : Michael Goldman |
Publisher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780745313054 |
'An easily read book illuminating the multifarious process of environmental degradation, as well as the motley social movements, especially on a grass-root level, resisting the privatisation of common resources and ecological degradation on both a local and global level.' Capital & ClassTackling the key themes - such as the convergence of environment and social justice, global commodities, and the role of social movements - the contributors draw on examples from the Amazon, Mexico, Cameroon, India and the industrialised North.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 926 |
Release | : 1876 |
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