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Mountain people. --- Wakhi (Asian people) --- Vakhan (Asian people) --- Wakhani (Asian people) --- Wakhigi (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Hill people --- Hillbillies --- Mountaineers (Ethnology)

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Distilling, Illicit -- Virginia -- Franklin County -- History. --- Franklin County (Va.) -- History -- 20th century. --- Franklin County (Va.) -- Religious life and customs. --- Franklin County (Va.) -- Social life and customs. --- Lee, Charles Carter, -- d. 1958 -- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Mountain life -- Virginia -- Franklin County. --- Mountain people -- Virginia -- Franklin County. --- Distilling, Illicit --- Mountain life --- Mountain people --- Hill people --- Hillbillies --- Mountaineers (Ethnology) --- Ethnology --- Country life --- Illicit distilling --- Moonshining --- Alcoholic beverage law violations --- Distilleries --- History --- Law and legislation

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In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constant

Human ecology --- Ethnoecology --- Mountain people --- Deforestation --- Culture and tourism --- Environmental degradation --- Environmental policy --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality --- Ethnotourism --- Tourism and culture --- Tourism --- Conversion, Forest --- Depletion of forests --- Disforestation --- Forest conversion --- Forest depletion --- Forest-land conversion --- Clearing of land --- Forest fires --- Plants --- Hill people --- Hillbillies --- Mountaineers (Ethnology) --- Ethnology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Social conditions. --- Extinction --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Himalaya Mountains Region --- Environmental conditions. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races

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This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and knowledge systems, healing in ancient scriptures, concept of sacredness and faith healing, food as medicament, presumptions about disease, ethno-botanical aspects of medicinal plants, collection and processing of herbs, traditional therapeutic procedures, indigenous Materia medica, etc. The book also discusses the diverse therapeutic procedures followed by Himalayan healers and their significance in the socio-cultural life of Himalayan societies.    The World Health Organization defines traditional medicine as wisdom, skills, and practices based on theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, used in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness and maintenance of health. In some Asian and African countries, 80% of the population depends on traditional medicine for primary health care. However, the knowledge of these conventional healing techniques and traditions associated with conveying this knowledge are slowly disappearing. The authors highlight the importance of safeguarding this indigenous knowledge in the cultural milieu of the Himachal Himalayas. This book will be an important resource for researchers in medical anthropology, biology, ethno-biology, ecology, community health, health behavior, psychotherapy, and Himalayan studies.

Mountain people -- Health and hygiene -- Himalaya mountains region. --- Social medicine. --- Traditional medicine -- Himalaya mountains region. --- Medicine, Traditional --- Culture --- Complementary Therapies --- Therapeutics --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Anthropology --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Medicine, Ayurvedic --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Public Health - General --- Folklore --- Traditional medicine --- Mountain people --- Health and hygiene --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Hill people --- Hillbillies --- Mountaineers (Ethnology) --- Medicine. --- Public health. --- Anthropology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Public Health. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Human beings --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Cultural studies --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Ethnology --- Alternative medicine --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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Continuity and Change in Cultural Mountain Adaptations: From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats presents an international and interdisciplinary account of human cultural adaptation to mountainous environments over time. Mountain ecosystems are critical to the wellbeing of sizable populations in Eurasia, the Americas, and Africa. The book presents the evidence on continuity of human cultural adaptation to mountain ecosystems and also on contemporary threats and vulnerabilities caused by intensification in mining, agriculture, and tourism.  The essays collected here discuss human responses to key physical and cultural stressors impacting human wellbeing in mountain ecosystems, such as aridity, quality of soils, steep slopes, industrialization and infrastructural change, low productivity, adverse effects of centralized political decision-making, deforestation and erosion, tourism, and the possible effects of climate change. The contributors who are cultural anthropologists, geographers, archaeologists, ecologists, and cultural resource managers and planners all point out that mountain populations cope with the stressors by adopting specific cultural strategies, such as seasonal migrations, integration of pastoral and agricultural production, animal crossbreeding, use of crop varieties, a mixture of communal and household control of land, trade, crop diversity, diversification of activities, and technological innovations and innovative scheduling of productive activities.  Continuity and Change in Cultural Mountain Adaptations: From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats will be of interest to archaeologists, cultural resource managers, anthropologists, ecologists, climatologists, and geologists because mountainous ecosystems change fast, and cultures disappear and they need to be recorded.  Most importantly, cultural responses of mountain populations provide clues for us all in this time of environmental change.

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