Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas : : An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters / / Vincanne Adams.
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 "au...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 25 halftones |
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