Abstract
This article examines both vernacular and establishment narratives about animals and nature in Tibet and the Himalayas. Close readings of documents from the Tibetan Imperial Period and major works of Tibetan literature will be juxtaposed with community narratives collected during fieldwork in the Spiti region of India’s Northwest Himalayas. This article suggests that the historical tendency to emphasize the subjugation of nature has been challenged by recent vernacular and establishment accounts. We shall see that narratives in Spiti have stressed that the relationship between humans and the natural world is a reciprocal one, rather than one of subjugation.
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Orton, Jane
(2024)
"Subjugation and Survival: Animal and Nature Narratives in the Himalayas,"
Narrative Culture: Vol. 11:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/narrative/vol11/iss2/1