Nature vs. Culture in Changing Himalayan Societies

The study of the relationship between nature and culture has been given new impetus over recent decades and has opened up attractive theoretical avenues. A number of social anthropologists have published inspiring books on this theme. The excessive duality between these two domains that some researchers refer to when contemplating non-western societies has been rightly questioned. Lévi-Strauss himself, after assuming a strict dichotomy between nature and culture in the first part of his work, spent the second half of his career showing the intimate relationship between pre-modern man and his environment