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- Title
Life on the hoof: gender, youth, and the environment in the Indian Himalayas.
- Authors
Dyson, Jane
- Abstract
This article examines how young people in the Indian Himalayas understand, appreciate, and discuss their environment. Building on intensive ethnographic field research in Bemni, Uttarakhand, I point to the changing ways in which young people use the everyday practice of herding to acquire knowledge and engage in playful activity. I emphasize that age and gender shape the capacity for young people to interact creatively with their local environments. I will argue that studies of human/environment relations might usefully combine a focus on the movement of individuals through environments with a focus on the gendered ways in which they move through the life-course.
- Subjects
INDIA; HUMAN ecology research; ENVIRONMENTALISM -- Social aspects; GENDER; YOUTH; ANTHROPOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2015, Vol 21, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1359-0987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9655.12147