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Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal
Author Fisher, James F. (著) ; Hillary, Edmond (前言)
EditionFirst Edition
Date1990.05
Pages248
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publisher Url https://www.ucpress.edu/
LocationBerkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteJames F. Fisher is Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College and the author of Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society, and Culture in Northwest Nepal (California, 1986).
AbstractJames Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 1964. Returning to the Everest region several times during the 1970s and 1980s, he discovered that the construction of the schools had far less impact than one of the by-products of their building: a short-take-off-and-landing airstrip. By reducing the time it took to travel between Kathmandu and the Everest region from a hike of several days to a 45-minute flight, the airstrip made a rapid increase in tourism possible. Beginning with his impressions of Sherpa society in pre-tourist days, Fisher traces the trajectory of contemporary Sherpa society reeling under the impact of modern education and mass tourism, and assesses the Sherpa's concerns for their future and how they believe these problems should be and eventually will be resolved.
Table of contentsForeword by Sir Edmund Hillary
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography and Sherpa Names
Maps
Nepal
Solu-Khumbu Region
Satellite View of Solu-Khumbu
Introduction: Monograph, Memoir,
Confession
1 The Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition, 1964
2 A Tradition of Change
3 Schools for Sherpas
4 A Torrent of Tourists
5 How Sherpas See the Future
6 Summary and Conclusion
Appendixes
A. Curriculum for Thawas at Tengboche
Monastery
B. Khumjung School Curriculum
c. Chronology of Solu-Khumbu
D. Recent Change in Khumbu
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN9780520069411 (Paperback); 0195626834 (Hardcover); 9780195626834 (Hardcover)
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