Paths Not Taken

On Negative Wayfaring in Ladakh

Bibliographic Data

ID2175203
AuthorsCallum Pearce (0000-0001-5251-4992, Anglia Ruskin University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume25
Issue5
Pages433-450
Publication date2024-10-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2024.2415004
OpenAlexW4403497644
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

For Buddhist laity in Ladakh, familiar paths and places are delineated by both movement and avoidance. Negative forms of engagement with the landscape operate as active means of place-making: curtailed movement, avoidance, and the redirection of non-human movement all work to disentangle self and landscape, protecting against dangers often embodied in spirits. These processes invert the normal logic of wayfaring and dwelling, relying on curtailed movement as a means of protection against the threats inherent in the landscape. Avoidance behaviour contributes to the management of the porous and shifting boundaries through which threatening forces routinely flow, particularly after nightfall

Geography · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora

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