Culturel ; Economie de subsistance ; Himalaya ; Karakoram ; Pakistan ; Société rurale ; Source ; Village
Cultural studies ; Himalaya ; Karokoram ; Pakistan ; Rural society ; Springs ; Subsistence economy ; Village
Author examines the role of a hot spring in a subsistence economy of a village lying in the Karakorum-Himalaya. She explores the ways in which village life focus on the pond - religious, economic, and social - and weighs and harshly criticizes