Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas. An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters. - ADAMS, VINCANNE
an ethnography of Himalayan encounters
KORTE INHOUD
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 repre...
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1996Uitgever: Princeton University Press304 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691001111ISBN-13: 9780691001111Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's blue paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: frontispiece, xvi, 304pp., 24 illustrations, glossary sherpa terms, notes, bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new. Volume Princeton Paperbacks. Princeton [NJ], Princeton University Press 1996 [Auteur: ADAMS, VINCANNE] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas. An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters.]
Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: frontispiece, xvi, 304pp., 24 illustrations, glossary sherpa terms, notes, bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new. Princeton [NJ], Princeton University Press 1996 [Auteur: ADAMS, VINCANNE] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas. An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters.]
