Biography hill wheat people

A young South Asian American woman's story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming.
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People have used or lived in the mountains for thousands of years, first as hunter-gatherers and later as farmers and pastoralists.

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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California

August 8, 2023

A stunning debut, full of deep and difficult questions, driving plot, and heart-felt characters drawn so vividly from the author's life. This book calls attention to the realities of organic farming, in which young idealistic farmers without family land have to rent land to farm, and are subject to the whims and cruelties of both the seasons and the marketplace. It also complicates the search for connection, ancestry, and rootedness of those whose families have recently come to the US and still retain strong ties to homelands, ones layered with emotional and financial demands. Exhaustive research into the history of wheat farming, the Green Revolution, the reinvention of organic practices are all handled deftly and wrought in compelling prose interwoven with the author's personal story of trying to connect with and steward land, and somehow make someplace feel like home.

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Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood

Deftly combining archival sources with evocative life histories, Anastasia Karakasidou brings welcome clarity to the contentious debate over ethnic identities and nationalist ideologies in Greek Macedonia. Her vivid and detailed account demonstrates that contrary to official rhetoric, the current people of Greek Macedonia ultimately derive from profoundly diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Throughout the last century, a succession of regional and world conflicts, economic migrations, and shifting state formations has engendered an intricate pattern of population movements and refugee resettlements across the region. Unraveling the complex social, political, and economic processes through which these disparate peoples have become culturally amalgamated within an overarchingly Greek national identity, this book provides an important corrective to the Macedonian picture and an insightful analysis of the often volatile conjunction of ethnicities and nationalisms in the twentieth century.

"Combining the thoughtful use of theory with a vivid hist

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Hill people

General demonym for people who live at elevation

This article is about people who live in the hills or mountains. For Appalachian hill people, see Hillbilly. For the hill tribes of Southeast Asia, see Hill tribe (Thailand). For the role-playing game, see Hillfolk. For the book named The Mountain People, see Ik people § The Mountain People. For the song, see Mountain People (song).

Hill people, also referred to as mountain people, is a general term for people who live in the hills and mountains. This includes all rugged land above 300 metres (980 ft) and all land (including plateaus) above 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) elevation. The climate is generally harsh, with steep temperature drops between day and night, high winds, runoff from melting snow and rain that cause high levels of erosion and thin, immature soils.

People have used or lived in the mountains for thousands of years, first as hunter-gatherers and later as farmers and pastoralists. The isolated communities are often culturally and linguistically diverse. Today about 720 million pe