Knowing DIL Das
Subtitle: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter (Contemporary Ethnography)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: October 7, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780812217124
Subjects: Ethnography; Sociology; Friendship; Culture conflict; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Himalayas; Garhwal; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; d. 1986; Anthropology - General; Das, Dil,; Ethnology; Garhwåal; 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.