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In A Mountain Oasis, Susan York presents a richly illustrated socio-economic study of village life in Pakistans Yasin Valley, undertaken during one year spent living with a local family. It documents this dynamic agro-pastoral society at a time when few researchers were recording developments in these far-flung and difficult to reach mountain oases of the Hindukush. It is a record of a time when development interventions were in their beginnings, and before this area in Gilgit-Baltistan entered a crucial period of transformation. It provides solid comparative reference material for future research on this region, which is continuing to undergo challenging and complex changes.
Price: $194.00
Pages: 290
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Iran and the Caucasus Monographs
Publication Date:
02 November 2023
ISBN: 9789004684812
Format: Hardcover
"The book fills a significant gap in the modern knowledge of Gilgit-Baltistan, bringing a peripheral area into the limelight of global academia. Unfortunately, the region is still outside the mainstream of Pakistans publishing industry. Even the infrastructure of knowledge has its peripheries" - Aziz Ali Dad, in: The News On Sunday, June 16, 2024
"As a woman, the author had the chance to look closer into the female side of household life, which is mostly closed to male visitors or researchers. Thus, female activities dominate to some extent the discourse and are more specific. Studies by male authors will display the opposite imbalance...With her book, the author adds a valuable contribution to the set of publications now available that discuss aspects of life, nature and their change in this previously remote, mountainous area of Northern Pakistan." - Georg Stöber, Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschu, in: Erdkunde 73, no. 3 (2024)
"In her brilliantly written monograph, York documents the daily activities in Barkulti in the years between 1982 and 1983. She provides extensive accounts of social and economic life, the subsistence economy, and its essential component of interdependence and cooperation." - Fizza Batool, University of Augsburg, in: HIMALAYA 43, no. 2 (2024)
"As a woman, the author had the chance to look closer into the female side of household life, which is mostly closed to male visitors or researchers. Thus, female activities dominate to some extent the discourse and are more specific. Studies by male authors will display the opposite imbalance...With her book, the author adds a valuable contribution to the set of publications now available that discuss aspects of life, nature and their change in this previously remote, mountainous area of Northern Pakistan." - Georg Stöber, Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschu, in: Erdkunde 73, no. 3 (2024)
"In her brilliantly written monograph, York documents the daily activities in Barkulti in the years between 1982 and 1983. She provides extensive accounts of social and economic life, the subsistence economy, and its essential component of interdependence and cooperation." - Fizza Batool, University of Augsburg, in: HIMALAYA 43, no. 2 (2024)
Susan York is a social anthropologist, researcher and teacher with degrees in social anthropology, humanities and psychology. She has carried out research on mountain communities in Pakistan, Afghan refugees in Pakistan and food emergencies in Sudan.