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Sherpa / Edmund Hillary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillary, Edmund, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--China.
- Ethnology.
- China--Civilization.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, 2004.
- Summary:
- The Sherpa are a Tibetan-speaking people who moved into the valleys of eastern Nepal in the middle of the sixteenth century. They survived as traders transporting goods by Yak across the Himalayas, linking the markets of China to Nepal and India. This collection of 19 documents about the Sherpa covers a period from the 1950s to 1990s. The Sherpa environment, religion, and social change have received the most attention by these authors.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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