| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. Working with young people in the Himalayas -- Young people's agency -- Young people and the environment -- South Asian approaches -- Uttarakhand -- Chamoli district -- Locating the village -- Argument and structure of the book -- 2. high Himalayas -- Bemni -- Social inequalities -- Conclusions -- 3. delicate dance: young people's work -- Children's household work -- Children's agricultural and forest work -- Schoolwork -- Conclusions -- 4. Herding, fun and difference -- Herding, seasonality and gender -- Herding and fun (mazaa) -- Gender, caste and play -- herding puja -- Conclusions -- 5. Friendship in practice: collecting leaves in Bemni -- Leaf collection in Bemni -- Village expectations -- Achieving leaf collection standards by friendship -- Firm friends and cultural production -- Conclusions -- 6. Harvesting identities: mukku, gender and development -- Mukku in Bemni -- Saka -- Contextualising girls' transgressions -- Rakesh -- Conclusions -- 7. Conclusions -- Active quiescence -- Social inequality -- social construction of the environment -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
Working Childhoods draws upon research in the Indian Himalayas to provide a theoretically-informed account of children's lives in a remote part of the world. The book shows that children in their pre-teens and teens are lynchpins of the rural economy, spending hours each day herding cattle, collecting leaves, and juggling household tasks with schoolwork. Through documenting in painstaking detail children's stories, songs, friendships, fears and tribulations, the book offers a powerful account of youth agency and young people's rich relationship with the natural world. The 'environment' emerges not only as a crucial economic resource but also as a basis for developing gendered ideas of self. The book should be essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding childhood, youth, the environment, and development within and beyond India - including anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, development studies scholars, and South Asianists |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rural youth -- India -- Social conditions
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Rural youth -- Employment -- India
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Human ecology -- India
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Human ecology
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Rural youth -- Employment
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Rural youth -- Social conditions
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Jugend
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Ländlicher Raum
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Barnarbete.
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Lantarbetare.
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Socialantropologi.
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India
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Uttaranchal
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Indien.
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Himalaya.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139923033 |
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113992303X |
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9781107415706 |
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1107415705 |
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