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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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Table of Contents:
- 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