ANTH 353 | SAST 569 | ANTH 553 | SAST 369: Himalayan Languages and Cultures

ANTH 353 | SAST 569 | ANTH 553 | SAST 369

Himalayan Languages and Cultures

Spring semester 2012
Tuesdays 3.30-5.20pm
Hall of Graduate Studies (GHS) 301

Brief Outline of Class

We explore the Himalayan belt as a unique case study in the human condition and the distinctive adaptive strategies of smaller communities. Straddling the Indosphere and the Sinosphere, the Himalayan region is of profound geopolitical importance and home to enormous biological, cultural and linguistic diversity. Through reading relevant ethnographies, and by our careful study of the lives and livelihoods of some of the communities settled in and across Himalayan mountain states, we will ask probing questions about territory, identity, belonging and ideology.

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