| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 205 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
James 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. |
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Sherpa (Nepalese people)
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Solukhumbū (Nepal) -- Description and travel.
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Education -- Nepal -- Solukhumbū.
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Tourism -- Nepal -- Solukhumbū.
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TRAVEL.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Education. (OCoLC)fst00902499
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Sherpa (Nepalese people) (OCoLC)fst01115867
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Tourism. (OCoLC)fst01153142
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Nepal -- Solukhumbū.
(OCoLC)fst01231024
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Sozialer Wandel.
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Sherpa.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fisher, James F. Sherpas. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1990 0520067703 (DLC) 89027155 (OCoLC)20422241 |
| ISBN |
9780520909946 (electronic bk.) |
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0520909941 (electronic bk.) |
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0585236666 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585236667 (electronic bk.) |
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