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Joseph Alter teaches anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. And it is about the moral ambiguity of writing and living in a field of power where, despite intimacy, self and other are unequal. Thus, Knowing Dil Das is not about peasant culture but about the limits of culture and history. 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.
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A videóidat bárhol, bármikor megnézheted, így biztosítjuk neked a folyamatos tanulás lehetségét. Saját tanárod lesz, aki az alapoktól a felsfokig fogja a kezed és gyakorol veled. 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. DIL - Deutsch Interaktiv Lernen Bárhol, bármikor. 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. Instead of looking for information about peasant culture, he was able to see that Dil Das was talking against culture. Years later, he began rereading Dil Das's stories, this time from a completely new perspective. When Dil Das died in 1986, Alter put the project away. 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. But Alter found his friend uninterested in talking about traditional ethnographic subjects, such as community life, family, or work. 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. This passion and the friendships it made possible came to dominate Dil Das's life. The basis for these friendships was a common passion for hunting. 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. 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 ScholarshipDil Das was a poor farmer-an untouchable-living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. Most important, like all great anthropology, the story speaks to the issue of what constitutes the human spirit. It has passion, compelling stories, sober reflection, and an incredibly artful structure that carries the reader along. "This rich and complex book is often moving, frequently thought-provoking."- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "This book will become a classic.
Dil series#
Paper 1999 | ISBN 9780812217124 | $26.50s | Outside the Americas £19.99Įbook editions are available from selected online vendorsĪ volume in the series Contemporary Ethnography