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  • Joseph S Alter
  • Knowing DIL Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter 
     

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    Lieferstatus:   i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
    Veröffentlichung:  Oktober 1999  
    Genre:  Geschichte / Politik / Kultur 
    ISBN:  9780812217124 
    EAN-Code: 
    9780812217124 
    Verlag:  University Of Pennsylvania Press 
    Einband:  Kartoniert  
    Sprache:  English  
    Serie:  Contemporary Ethnography  
    Dimensionen:  H 229 mm / B 153 mm / D 15 mm 
    Gewicht:  358 gr 
    Seiten:  216 
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    "This rich and complex book is often moving, frequently thought-provoking."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

    "This book will become a classic. It has passion, compelling stories, sober reflection, and an incredibly artful structure that carries the reader along. Most important, like all great anthropology, the story speaks to the issue of what constitutes the human spirit. There is wisdom in this book, and for that rare gift I am grateful to Dil Das and Joseph Alter."--Paul Stoller, author of Sensuous Scholarship

    Dil Das was a poor farmer--an untouchable--living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with their sons. The basis for these friendships was a common passion for hunting. This passion and the friendships it made possible came to dominate Dil Das's life.

    When Joseph S. Alter, one of the boys who had hunted with Dil Das, became an adult and a scholar, he set out to write the life history of Dil Das as a way of exploring Garhwali peasant culture. But Alter found his friend uninterested in talking about traditional ethnographic subjects, such as community life, family, or work. Instead, Dil Das spoke almost exclusively about hunting with his American friends--telling endless tales about friendship and hunting that seemed to have nothing to do with peasant culture.

    When Dil Das died in 1986, Alter put the project away. Years later, he began rereading Dil Das's stories, this time from a completely new perspective. Instead of looking for information about peasant culture, he was able to see that Dil Das was talking against culture. From this viewpoint Dil Das's narrative made sense for precisely those reasons that had earlier seemed to render it useless--his apparent indifference toward details of everyday life, his obsession with hunting, and, above all, his celebration of friendship.

    To a degree in fact, but most significantly in Dil Das's memory, hunting served to merge his and the missionary boys' identities and, thereby, to supersede and render irrelevant all differences of class, caste, and nationality. For Dil Das the intimate experience of hunting together radically decentered the prevailing structure of power and enabled him to redefine himself outside the framework of normal social classification.

    Thus, Knowing Dil Das is not about peasant culture but about the limits of culture and history. And it is about the moral ambiguity of writing and living in a field of power where, despite intimacy, self and other are unequal.

    Joseph Alter teaches anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India.

      



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