Floating Economies

Michael J. Casimir is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Cologne. His major publications include Growing up in a Pastoral Society: Socialisation among Pashtu Nomads in Western Afghanistan (Hundt Druck, 2010) and Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective (ed. Berghahn, 2008).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on TextIntroductionPART IChapter 1. The Valley of Kasmir and Dal LakeChapter 2. Kashmir’s Early History and the Conversion to IslamChapter 3. The Social Organization of Contemporary Kashmiri Muslim SocietyChapter 4. The Market Gardeners of the Lake: Early AccountsChapter 5. The Market Gardeners’ Economy TodayChapter 6. The Productivity of Lacustrine Market GardeningChapter 7. The Houseboat Owner Community and the Development of Tourism on Dal LakeChapter 8. The Gad Hanz: The Last Fishers on the DalPART IIChapter 9. The Degradation of the Dal: Causes and ImpactsChapter 10. The Political Ecology of a Degrading Lake: A Paradise Lost?Appendix AAppendix BReferencesIndex

“…an authoritative, richly detailed, lavishly illustrated study….Recommended.” • Choice“A unique, erudite and engaging study of local lives on and around the Dal Lake in Kashmir away from the violence that we hear about so much in news channels before the military crackdown and blackout of 2019.” • Raminder Kaur, University of Sussex