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Author Fisher, James F

Title Sherpas : reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal / James F. Fisher ; with a foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 205 pages, [16] leaves of plates)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index
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Subject Sherpa (Nepalese people)
Education -- Nepal -- Solukhumbū
Tourism -- Nepal -- Solukhumbū
TRAVEL.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Education
Sherpa (Nepalese people)
Tourism
Travel
Sozialer Wandel
Tourisme -- Népal.
Sherpa (peuple du Népal)
SUBJECT Solukhumbū (Nepal) -- Description and travel
Subject Nepal -- Solukhumbū
Solukhumbu (Népal) -- Descriptions et voyages.
Sherpa.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696562
ISBN 9780520909946
0520909941
0585236666
9780585236667
9780520067707
9780520069411
0520067703
0520069412