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Tension

Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas

Simpson, Nikita Kaur

Duke University Press

03/2026

238

Dura

Inglês

9781478029830

15 a 20 dias

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Author's Note ix
Preface: A Mother's Body xi
Introduction. What is Tension? 1
1. Opara: Is Distress Relational? 27
2. Kamzori: How Does the Distressed Body Hold Time? 59
3. Ghar Ki Tension: Why is Care So Often the Source of Distress? 89
4. Future Tension: What is It About the Future That Generates Distress? 115
5. Pagal: What Happens When Distress Becomes Deviant? 141
Conclusion. Can Tension Travel? 169
Acknowledgments 179
Select Hindi and Gaddi Glossary 183
Notes 187
Bibliography 201
Index 215
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Mental health; Inequality; Care; India; Himalayas; Pastoralism; Gender; psychiatry; distress; witchcraft; Black Magic; time; Gaddi; aging; land enclosure; housework; domesticity; labor; fantasy; livelihood change; risk; girlhood; waithood; deviance; madness; marriage; domestic violence; theory; abstraction