Knowing Dil Das : : Stories of a Himalayan Hunter / / Joseph S. Alter.
Dil Das was a poor farmer-an untouchable-living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with t...
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Alter, Joseph S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Knowing Dil Das : Stories of a Himalayan Hunter / Joseph S. Alter. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2000 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Contemporary Ethnography Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Bal Kand / The Book of Childhood -- Chapter 1. Dil Das-Enslaved Heart -- Chapter 2. Woodstock School: Protestants, Peasants, and Ethics -- Chapter 3. A Tiger's Tale -- Part II. Aranya Kand / The Forest Book -- Chapter 4. Coapman's Fall -- Chapter 5. Hearts of Darkness -- Chapter 6. Land Masters: Purebred History -- Part III. Shram Kand / The Book of Labor -- Chapter 7. Dairying: An Untold Story -- Chapter 8. Slippage: Out of Work, Through Hunting -- Chapter 9. The Terms of Friendship -- Part IV. Uttarkhand / Himalaya -- Chapter 10. The Heart of the Matter -- Chapter 11. A Hybrid History of Encounter -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Dil Das was a poor farmer-an untouchable-living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with their sons. The basis for these friendships was a common passion for hunting. This passion and the friendships it made possible came to dominate Dil Das's life.When Joseph S. Alter, one of the boys who had hunted with Dil Das, became an adult and a scholar, he set out to write the life history of Dil Das as a way of exploring Garhwali peasant culture. But Alter found his friend uninterested in talking about traditional ethnographic subjects, such as community life, family, or work. Instead, Dil Das spoke almost exclusively about hunting with his American friends-telling endless tales about friendship and hunting that seemed to have nothing to do with peasant culture.When Dil Das died in 1986, Alter put the project away. Years later, he began rereading Dil Das's stories, this time from a completely new perspective. Instead of looking for information about peasant culture, he was able to see that Dil Das was talking against culture. From this viewpoint Dil Das's narrative made sense for precisely those reasons that had earlier seemed to render it useless-his apparent indifference toward details of everyday life, his obsession with hunting, and, above all, his celebration of friendship.To a degree in fact, but most significantly in Dil Das's memory, hunting served to merge his and the missionary boys' identities and, thereby, to supersede and render irrelevant all differences of class, caste, and nationality. For Dil Das the intimate experience of hunting together radically decentered the prevailing structure of power and enabled him to redefine himself outside the framework of normal social classification.Thus, Knowing Dil Das is not about peasant culture but about the limits of culture and history. And it is about the moral ambiguity of writing and living in a field of power where, despite intimacy, self and other are unequal. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Culture conflict India Garhwal. Culture conflict India Garhwāl. Ethnology India Garhwal. Ethnology India Garhwāl. Friendship India Garhwal. Friendship India Garhwāl. Hunters India Garhwal Biography. Hunters India Garhwāl Biography. SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology General. Folklore. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Anthropology. Linguistics. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Social Sciences 9783110413618 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812217124 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204759 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204759 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812204759/original |
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