The Shepherd Who Did Not Lead
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Flash ethnography, shephard, time, fieldwork, GaddiAbstract
This is an ethnographic snapshot of an encounter with a Gaddi shepherd in the hills of Himachal Pradesh. The Gaddis are a semi-nomadic pastoral people who live across the Himalayan belt of Northern India. In this piece, I recount how this lone shepherd, with just a slight gesture and in unspoken words, shows me how a journey can be lived unbounded by time
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04-Oct-2024
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Dasgupta, I. (2024). The Shepherd Who Did Not Lead. HIMALAYA - The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 43(2), 12–14. Retrieved from https://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/9099
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