Knowing Dil Das
Subtitle: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter (Contemporary Ethnography Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780812235241
Subjects: Ethnography; Friendship; Ethnology And Ethnography; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Himalayas; Garhwåal; Anthropology - Cultural; Das, Dil; Anthropology - General; Culture conflict; Ethnology; India
First sentence: Dil Das was a poor, low-caste, Himalayan peasant who defined himself, heroically, as a hunter of animals, and as a close friend of the missionary children he hunted with.