Sherpas : reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal / James F. Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, James F., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Nepal--Solukhumbu.

Tourism.

Education--Nepal--Solukhumbu.

Education.

Sherpa (Nepalese people).

Solukhumbū (Nepal)--Description and travel.

Solukhumbū (Nepal).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1990]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Note On Orthography And Sherpa Names

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

Appendix A: Curriculum For Thawas At Tengboche Monastery

Appendix B: Khumjung School Curriculum

Appendix C: Chronology Of Solu-Khumbu

Appendix D: Recent Change In Khumbu

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-193) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612354939

9781282354937

1282354930

9780520909946

0520909941

9780585236667

0585236666

OCLC:

630528023