Tigers Of The Snow And Other Virtual Sherpas
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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
Author | : Vincanne Adams |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781400851775 |
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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 representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.
Tigers of the Snow
Author | : Jonathan Neale |
Publsiher | : Time Warner Books UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Mountaineering |
ISBN | : 0349113505 |
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After spending almost a year in Nepal and India, Neale presents the true story of tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains and illuminates the gripping history of the Sherpa. 16-page photo insert.
Tigers of the Snow
Author | : Jonathan Neale |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002-06-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781429978583 |
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The true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest, and the coolies had become the "Tigers of the Snow." Jonathan Neale's absorbing new book is both a compelling history of the oft-forgotten heroes of mountaineering and a gripping account of the expedition that transformed the Sherpas into climbing legends. In 1934 a German-led team set off to climb the Himalayan peak of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain on earth. After a disastrous assault in 1895, no attempt had been made to conquer the mountain for thirty-nine years. The new Nazi government was determined to prove German physical superiority to the rest of the world. A heavily funded expedition was under pressure to deliver results. Like all climbers of the time, they did not really understand what altitude did to the human body. When a hurricane hit the leading party just short of the summit, the strongest German climbers headed down and left the weaker Germans and the Sherpas to die on the ridge. What happened in the next few days of death and fear changed forever how the Sherpa climbers thought of themselves. From that point on, they knew they were the decent and responsible people of the mountain. Jonathan Neale interviewed many old Sherpa men and women, including Ang Tsering, the last man off Nanga Parbat alive in 1934. Impeccably researched and superbly written, Tigers of the Snow is the compelling narrative of a climb gone wrong, set against the mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the haunting background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys.
Tiger of the Snows
Author | : Tenzing Norkey,James Ramsey Ullman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Everest, Mount (China and Nepal). |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008879689 |
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Studies in Nepali History and Society
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains Region |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105112747899 |
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Lambda Alpha Journal of Man
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : NWU:35556029075421 |
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