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K.C. MAHANTA (Univesity of Dibrugarh,
Dibrugarh Assam, India)
1997 • Pages: 356 • Size: 180 x 240 mm • ISBN
81-85264-18-X • Binding: Hard •
Price: US $ 75/- Rs. 1450/-
(Human Ecology Special Issue No. 6)
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The
volume complied under the rubric of people of the Himalayas: Ecology, Culture Development and Change is an ambitious geographic multidisciplinary study
concerning the little or scantily explored mountain ranges of Himalayas. The book has six major themes, which are the subject
of 42 chapters. The study aims at having systmatic
scientific knowledge of the conditions of the habitats, socio-cultural
knowledge of the conditions of the habitats, socio-cultural development and
change and their impact on the overall environmental situations presently
obtaining in the sprawling 2,700 km long Himalayan ranges; extending from the
south-east extreme of the Karakorams across Kashmir to Assam. The work covers the Himalayan highland as well as the
lowland habitations including those in the plain catchment
area in the north-east. Having taken a cursory glance at the Himalayan
physiographic features, the study has noted that the age-old ever sustaining
subsistence level of livelihood waned following the steady advent of
urbanization and westernization among the Himalayan ranges since around the
early twentieth century. The volume contains contributions from eminent
scholars and researchers having direct first hand enthnographic
study of the Himalayan habitations. The papers cover multiple parameters of
study. Starting with the conceptual aspects of human ecology and environment,
the volume comprises papers dealing with geoenvironmental
incompatible situations, biodiversity-cum-eco-development, eco-historical
perspectives, material culture and its components and last but not the least,
change and its effect. The millennium old pristine tribal life that nestled
in the Himalayan heights since perhaps prehistoric times fast came to the
metamorphosed, and in this context, though the need of urgent anthropology is
long past, the present work is worth being rather late than never.
The wide
diversity of the subject matter described in 42 chapters will make this book
of interest to anthropologists, social scientists (geography, economics,
history, sociology, political science etc.).
CONTENTS
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1. ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT: CONCEPTS
II. GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
III. BIODIVERSITY AND ECO-DEVELOPMENT
IV. ECO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
V. CULTURE: LIFE WAYS AND MATERIAL
COMPONENTS
VI. CHANGE AND EFFECT
INDEX
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