"It's a conspiracy theory and climate change": Of beastly encounters and cervine disappearances in Himalayan India

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-111

  Mathur, Nayanika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorization; Climate change; Conspiracy theory; Human animal relations; India

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939474065     PISSN: 25751433     EISSN: 20491115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14318/hau5.1.005     Document Type: Article

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