Tigers Of The Snow And Other Virtual Sherpas

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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas

Author : Vincanne Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400851777
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas written by Vincanne Adams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

Tigers of the Snow

Author : Jonathan Neale
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429978589
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Tigers of the Snow written by Jonathan Neale and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tigers of the Snow is true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest, and the coolies had become the "Tigers of the Snow." Jonathan Neale's absorbing book is both a compelling history of the oft-forgotten heroes of mountaineering and a gripping account of the expedition that transformed the Sherpas into climbing legends. In 1934 a German-led team set off to climb the Himalayan peak of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain on earth. After a disastrous assault in 1895, no attempt had been made to conquer the mountain for thirty-nine years. The new Nazi government was determined to prove German physical superiority to the rest of the world. A heavily funded expedition was under pressure to deliver results. Like all climbers of the time, they did not really understand what altitude did to the human body. When a hurricane hit the leading party just short of the summit, the strongest German climbers headed down and left the weaker Germans and the Sherpas to die on the ridge. What happened in the next few days of death and fear changed forever how the Sherpa climbers thought of themselves. From that point on, they knew they were the decent and responsible people of the mountain. Jonathan Neale interviewed many old Sherpa men and women, including Ang Tsering, the last man off Nanga Parbat alive in 1934. Impeccably researched and superbly written, Tigers of the Snow is the compelling narrative of a climb gone wrong, set against the mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the haunting background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys.

Istanbul

Author : Çağlar Keyder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847694952
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Istanbul written by Çağlar Keyder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in Istanbul, one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Explaining the course of the conflicts and the compromises involved in maintaining a precarious urbanity, this theoretically informed volume focuses on the fields of struggle ranging from politics to heritage, humor to music, public space to housing.

Space, Place and Religious Landscapes

Author : Darrelyn Gunzburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350079898
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Space, Place and Religious Landscapes written by Darrelyn Gunzburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, Asia and South America, and embrace the union of sky, landscape and people to examine the religious dynamics between human and non-human entities. This book takes as its starting point the fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, recognising that mountains are relational and that landscapes form personal and group cosmologies. The book fuses ideas of space, place and material religion with cultural environmentalism and takes an interconnected approach to material religio-landscapes. In this way it fills the gap between lived religious traditions, personal reflection, phenomenology, historical context, environmental philosophy, myths and performativity. In defining material religion as active engagement with mountain-forming and humanshaping landscapes, the research and ideas presented here provide theories that are widely applicable to other forms of material religion.

Anthropos

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Anthropos written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Anthropologist, Volume 97, Number 3

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Anthropologist, Volume 97, Number 3 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Positions

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Positions written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies in Nepali History and Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Nepali History and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lambda Alpha Journal of Man

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Lambda Alpha Journal of Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Himalayan Research Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Himalayan Research Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethnic Revival and Religious Turmoil

Author : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Revival and Religious Turmoil written by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on ethnic revival and identity crisis in the Himalayan region. Anthropologists analyze and discuss several cases from Gilgit in Pakistan to Eastern Napal.

Translating Development

Author : Manfred Domrös
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Translating Development written by Manfred Domrös and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to this book, sustainable development which must attend to economy, environment, and society, is achievable even in a country like Nepal, which has a very weak socio-economic framework. Eighteen papers based on grassroots experience provide information on how this can be done.

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Ecological Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nepalese Climbers on Mount Everest

Author : Ang Phurba Sherpa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nepalese Climbers on Mount Everest written by Ang Phurba Sherpa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With brief biographical details of the climbers.

Kids of Khumbu

Author : Kurt Luger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kids of Khumbu written by Kurt Luger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Getting to the Bottom of Tourism on Top of the World

Author : Clinton Bryce Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Getting to the Bottom of Tourism on Top of the World written by Clinton Bryce Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Himalayan Herders

Author : Naomi Hawes Bishop
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Himalayan Herders written by Naomi Hawes Bishop and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first general case study about the Sherpa people in the Yolmo region of Nepal helps to place the more familiar Sherpa of the Solu-Khumbu region of Mt. Everest in comparative context. This study provides an ethnographic description of a village within the broad context of human adaptation to mountain environments, Tibetan regional cultures, and culture change.