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Fed Before the Household: Care, Belonging and Human–Animal Relations among Gujjars of the Pir Panjal Himalaya

2026-08-06

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Gujjar pastoralists of the Pir Panjal Himalaya live in continuous company with their animals and speak of them in terms ordinarily reserved for family. This article asks what that closeness consists of: which animals it extends to, what practices compose it, what it costs, and where it stops. Drawing on fourteen months of fieldwork in six settlements across Rajouri and Poonch districts,...

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Literature Corpus work: 9d458e90-38bc-525e-9743-f2d853f60460
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10557758/v1

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