Nomadism in South Asia

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Book Specification

Item Code:	IDF875
Author:	Edited By: Aparna Rao and Michael J. Casimir
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Language:	English
Edition:	2003
ISBN:	0195657454
Pages:	543
Cover:	Hardcover
Other Details	8.7" X 5.7"
Weight	740 gm

Book Description

From the Jacket:

The Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Anthropology comprise a set of volumes, each on an important theme or sub-area within these disciplines. Along with authoritative introduction and sectional prefaces, each book brings together key essays that apprise readers of the current debates and developments within that area, with specific reference to India. The volumes act both as introductions to sociology and social anthropology and as essential reference works for students, teachers and researchers.

A tenacious cliché about South Asia is that it has an immutable, irrational society stubbornly resisting change and movement of any kind. However, the fact is that South Asia is home to the world's largest nomadic population. In no other part of the world are there such a variety of beings systematically herded, nor the diversity of peripatetic professions to be matched.

Focusssing on nomadic societies in the region, this reader brings together essays, which illustrate how large sections of rural South Asians have long been dynamic, mobile, resilient, and rational agents. The readings cover a wide spectrum of resource uses, and look at a variety of ecological, economic, and political settings. They discuss three types of nomads- animal husbanders, including gatherers and hunters, peripatetic traders and entertainers.

Treating migration as their core point of reference, the authors cover a wide canvas of issues and approaches, from historical to contemporary ethnographic perspectives. They further discuss what it entails to be nomadic today and the future possibilities for such societies.

This reader is the first effort to present comprehensive information and theoretically informed discussions on the nomadic peoples in South Asia. It will be essential for students and researchers of social anthropology and sociology including those studying culture change, history, and archaeology. In addition, development activists, experts in the field of mobility, migration, and animal husbandry will also find it useful.

About the Author:

Aparna Rao is Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cologne.

Michael J. Casimir is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

CONTENTS

	Preface		xi
	Tables and Figures		xiii
	APARNA RAO AND	Nomadism in Sough Asia:
	MICHAEL J. CASIMIR	An Introduction	1
I. NOMADICSETTINGS AND FRONTIERS: ASPECTS AND PERSPECTIVES			39
1.	MICHAEL J. CASIMIR	The Historical Framework of
	AND APARNA RAO	Nomadism in South Asia:
		A Brief Overview	43
2.	NINA SWIDLER	The Development of the Kalat
		Khanate	73
3.	MICHAEL J. CASIMIR	Pastoral Nomadism in a West Himalayan Valley:
		Sustainability and Herd
		Management	81
4.	JOSEPH C. BERLAND	Servicing the Ordinary Folk:
		Peripatetic Peoples and their
		Niche in South Asia	104
5.	PETER M. GARDNER	Bicultural Oscillation as a
		Long-term Adaptation to
		Cultural Frontiers:
		Cases and Questions	125
II. NOMADISM, RESOURCES, AND RIGHTS TO ACCESS
TO ACCESS			149
6.	G. PRAKASH REDDY	Hunter-Gatherers and the
		Politics of Environment and
		Development in India	155
7.	APARNA RAO	Access to Pasture:
		Concepts, Constraints, and
		Practice in the Kashmir
		Himalayas	174
8.	VASANT K. SABERWAL	Policy, Property, and Access:
		Shepherd Land-Use in the
		Western Himalayas	213
9.	B. ANANDA BHANU	Boundaries, Obligations, and
		Reciprocity: Levels of
		Territoriality among the
		Cholanaickan of South Asia	247
III.THE PRATICE OF MIGRATION: A SPECTRUM OF ADAPTATIONS			271
10.	BARBARA BROWER	The Organization of
		Transhumance in the Nepal
		Himalayas: Sherpa
		Yak-Keeping in Khumbu	275
11.	H.M. SIDKY	Verticality, Multiple Resource
		Utilization and Subsistence
		Economy in the Karakorum
		Mountains: The Case of the
		Transhumant Hunzakut	307
12.	HANNA RAUBER	Trade in Far West Nepal:
	SCHWEIZER	The Economic Adaptation of
		the Peripatetic Humli-Khyampa	342
13.	GUNTHER-DIETZ	The Dhangar: A Nomadic
		Pastoral Community in a
		Developing Agricultural
		Environment	364
14.	C.H. CHILDERS	Banjaras	398
15.	ARUN AGRAWAL	Indigenous Decision-Making
		and Hierarchy in Migrating
		Pastoralist Collectives: The
		Raika of Western India	419
16	ROBERT M. HAYDEN	Conflicts and Relations of
		Power between Peripatetics
		and Villagers in South Asia	448
	References		468
	Index		528
	Notes in contributors		542

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