Nomadism in South Asia/ (Record no. 148744)
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| fixed length control field | 00345nam a2200133Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0195698908 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 304.854 |
| Item number | RAO/N |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Nomadism in South Asia/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Aparna Rao and Michael J. Casimir |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2003. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi, 543 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 440 ## - SERIES | |
| Title | (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology) |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Nomadism in South Asia: An Introduction / Aparna Rao and Michael J. Casimir --<br/>I. Nomadic Settings and Frontiers: Aspects and Perspectives --<br/>1. The Historical Framework of Nomadism in South Asia: A Brief Overview / Michael J. Casimir and Aparna Rao --<br/>2. The Development of the Kalat Khanate / Nina Swidler --<br/>3. Pastoral Nomadism in a West Himalayan Valley: Sustainability and Herd Management / Michael J. Casimir --<br/>4. Servicing the Ordinary Folk: Peripatetic Peoples and their Niche in South Asia / Joseph C. Berland --<br/>5. Bicultural Oscillation as a Long-term adaptation to Cultural Frontiers: Cases and Questions / Peter M. Gardner --<br/>II. Nomadism, Resources, and Rights to Access --<br/>6. Hunter-Gatherers and the Politics of Environment and Development in India / G. Prakash Reddy --<br/>7. Access to Pasture: Concepts, Constraints, and Practice in the Kashmir Himalayas / Aparna Rao --<br/>8. Policy, Property, and Access: Shepherd Land-Use in the Western Himalayas / Vasant K. Saberwal --<br/>9. Boundaries, Obligations, and Reciprocity: Levels of Territoriality among the Cholanaickan of South India / B. Ananda Bhanu --<br/>III. The Practice of Migration: A Spectrum of Adaptations --<br/>10. The Organization of Transhumance in the Nepal Himalayas: Sherpa Yak-Keeping in Khumbu / Barbara Brower --<br/>11. Verticality, Multiple Resource Utilization and Subsistence Economy in the Karakorum Mountains: The Case of the Transhumant Hunzakut / H. M. Sidky --<br/>12. Trade in Far West Nepal: The Economic Adaptation of the Peripatetic Humli-Khyampa / Hanna Rauber-Schweizer --<br/>13. The Dhangar: A Nomadic Pastoral Community in a Developing Agricultural Environment / Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer --<br/>14. Banjaras / C. H. Childers --<br/>15. Indigenous Decision-Making and Hierarchy in Migrating Pastoralist Collectives: The Raika of Western India / Arun Agrawal --<br/>16. Conflicts and Relations of Power between Peripatetics and Villagers in South Asia / Robert M. Hayden. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Nomads |
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| Keyword | South Asia |
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| Keyword | Migration, Internal |
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| Keyword | Human ecology |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rao, Aparna, ed. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Casimir, Michael J., ed. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 304.854 RAO/N | P03404 | 13/07/2018 | 13/07/2018 | General Books |