"The book fills a significant gap in the modern knowledge of Gilgit-Baltistan, bringing a peripheral area into the limelight of global academia. Unfortunately, the region is still outside the mainstream of Pakistan’s publishing industry. Even the infrastructure of knowledge has its peripheries" - Aziz Ali Dad, in: The News On Sunday, June 16, 2024"As a woman, the author had the chance to look closer into the female side of household life, which is mostly closed to male visitors or researchers. Thus, female activities dominate to some extent the discourse and are more specific. Studies by male authors will display the opposite imbalance...With her book, the author adds a valuable contribution to the set of publications now available that discuss aspects of life, nature and their change in this previously remote, mountainous area of Northern Pakistan." - Georg Stöber, Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschu, in: Erdkunde 73, no. 3 (2024)"In her brilliantly written monograph, York documents the daily activities in Barkulti in the years between 1982 and 1983. She provides extensive accounts of social and economic life, the subsistence economy, and its essential component of interdependence and cooperation." - Fizza Batool, University of Augsburg, in: HIMALAYA 43, no. 2 (2024)
