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Reading Himalayan Landscapes
over Time: Environmental
Perception, Knowledge and
Practice in Nepal and Ladakh
The authors of this book propose a new interpretation of the diversity and transformation of Himalayan
landscapes through a study of the relationship between Nepalese and Ladakhi societies and their
environment. Natural data on the range, demography, perceptions and representations of
environments, their history, current examples of resource management are the subject of often
unprecedented investigations.
By associating studies from various disciplines, local knowledge, meticulous fieldwork, as well as
archive research, the book prompts us to re-examine the catastrophist theories on the degradation of
Himalayan environments. It emerges that any intervention on these environments should take into
account their symbolic and religious dimension, as well as the very knowledge populations have of
them. Finally, this work contributes to fuelling debates on environmental changes and to reformulating
them. This book was first published in French in 2003.
Contents:
Introduction - Jolle Smadja
Preliminary Chapter
Snippets of Knowledge Stolen from an Impenetrable Country - Jolle Smadja
PART ONE: UNSTABLE AND OFTEN DENSELY POPULATED ENVIRONMENTS
Chapter I. Geographic Units and Landscapes in Nepal. Local Terminologies - Jolle Smadja
Chapter II. Ladakhi Landscape Units - Pascale Dollfus, Valrie Labbal
Chapter III. Some Elements Structuring the Himalayan Mountains - Olivier Dollfus, Monique
Fort
Chapter IV. Population Densities and Resources in the Study of Nepalese Landscapes -
Philippe Ramirez
PART TWO: PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF LANDSCAPES
Chapter V. The Nepalese Landscape: Exegesis and Appropriation of the Country - Marie
Lecomte-Tilouine
Chapter VI. A Reading of the Salme Tamangs' Territory and Landscape - Jolle Smadja
Chapter VII. A Foray into Ladakhi Place Names - Pascale Dollfus, Valrie Labbal
Chapter VIII. Christian and Hindu Share of the Territory in the Magar Village of Pathardi -
Lucile Viroulaud
PART THREE: HISTORICAL DATA ON LAND USE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Chapter IX. Agriculture in the Himalayas: a Historical Sketch - Pascale Dollfus, Marie Lecomte-
Tilouine, Olivia Aubriot
Chapter X. The Nepalese State and the Transformation of Landscapes according to
Administrative Documents Dating from the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries - Philippe Ramirez
Chapter XI. The Khimti Wilderness: Regulations and Conflicts. A legal and Historical Approach
- Bruno Muller
Chapter XII. Discourse and Law: Resource Management and Environmental Policies since
1950 - Blandine Ripert, Isabelle Sacareau, Thierry Boisseaux, Stphanie Tawa Lama
PART FOUR: LOCAL PRACTICES, BETWEEN CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT
Chapter XIII. Environmental Protection Impoverishment of Men: Botan Village on the Periphery
of Rara National Park - Satya Shrestha
Chapter XIV. Resource Management and Changes in Landscapes within the Annapurna
Title:
Reading Himalayan Landscapes over Time: Environmental Perception, Knowledge and Practice in
Nepal and Ladakh
Authors:
Jolle Smadja
Copyright:
2008
ISBN:
8184701705
Pages:
671
Publisher:
Collection Sciences Sociales
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Citation:
Jolle Smadja (Editor). 2009. Reading Himalayan Landscapes over Time. Environmental Perception,
Knowledge and Practice in Nepal and Ladakh. Collection Sciences Sociales 14, 671 p.
Link:
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20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creati ve=9325&creativeASI N=8184701705)
Conservation Area Project: The Example of Modi Khola - Isabelle Sacareau
Chapter XV. Parcelling of Land, Privatisation along with Collective Management of Space and
Resources on the Salme Mountainside - Blandine Ripert
Chapter XVI. The Balamis, Nepalese Woodcutters Deprived of Forest - Grard Toffin
Chapter XVII. A Bocage Landscape, Masyam and the Hamlet of Kolang - Tristan Brusl,
Monique Fort, Jolle Smadja
Author Description:
Jolle SMADJA, geographer, is a senior researcher, head of the CNRS research unit "Milieux, socits
et cultures en Himalaya (France). She has been co-ordinating interdisciplinary programmes on the
relationships between man and his environment. Her investigations focused on Nepal where she
studied population' s perception of environments, resource management, environment protection
policies and territorial restructurings. Her current work focuses on North-East India.Jolle SMADJA,
geographer, is a senior researcher, head of the CNRS research unit "Milieux, socits et cultures en
Himalaya (France). She has been co-ordinating interdisciplinary programmes on the relationships
between man and his environment. Her investigations focused on Nepal where she studied population's
perception of environments, resource management, environment protection policies and territorial
restructurings. Her current work focuses on North-East India.
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