TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rao, Aparna, ed.
AU  - Casimir, Michael J., ed.
TI  - Nomadism in South Asia
SN  - 0195698908
U1  - 304.854 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Nomads
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Migration, Internal
KW  - Human ecology
N1  - Nomadism in South Asia: An Introduction / Aparna Rao and Michael J. Casimir --
I. Nomadic Settings and Frontiers: Aspects and Perspectives --
1. The Historical Framework of Nomadism in South Asia: A Brief Overview / Michael J. Casimir and Aparna Rao --
2. The Development of the Kalat Khanate / Nina Swidler --
3. Pastoral Nomadism in a West Himalayan Valley: Sustainability and Herd Management / Michael J. Casimir --
4. Servicing the Ordinary Folk: Peripatetic Peoples and their Niche in South Asia / Joseph C. Berland --
5. Bicultural Oscillation as a Long-term adaptation to Cultural Frontiers: Cases and Questions / Peter M. Gardner --
II. Nomadism, Resources, and Rights to Access --
6. Hunter-Gatherers and the Politics of Environment and Development in India / G. Prakash Reddy --
7. Access to Pasture: Concepts, Constraints, and Practice in the Kashmir Himalayas / Aparna Rao --
8. Policy, Property, and Access: Shepherd Land-Use in the Western Himalayas / Vasant K. Saberwal --
9. Boundaries, Obligations, and Reciprocity: Levels of Territoriality among the Cholanaickan of South India / B. Ananda Bhanu --
III. The Practice of Migration: A Spectrum of Adaptations --
10. The Organization of Transhumance in the Nepal Himalayas: Sherpa Yak-Keeping in Khumbu / Barbara Brower --
11. Verticality, Multiple Resource Utilization and Subsistence Economy in the Karakorum Mountains: The Case of the Transhumant Hunzakut / H. M. Sidky --
12. Trade in Far West Nepal: The Economic Adaptation of the Peripatetic Humli-Khyampa / Hanna Rauber-Schweizer --
13. The Dhangar: A Nomadic Pastoral Community in a Developing Agricultural Environment / Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer --
14. Banjaras / C. H. Childers --
15. Indigenous Decision-Making and Hierarchy in Migrating Pastoralist Collectives: The Raika of Western India / Arun Agrawal --
16. Conflicts and Relations of Power between Peripatetics and Villagers in South Asia / Robert M. Hayden
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