Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas : : An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters /

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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Adams, Vincanne,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Orthographic Note
  • INTRODUCTION Lament for Pasang
  • CHAPTER ONE Sherpas in Mirrors
  • CHAPTER TWO Making Modern Sherpas
  • CHAPTER THREE Buddhist Sherpas as Others
  • CHAPTER FOUR The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas
  • CHAPTER FIVE Seduction and Simulative Power in the Himalayas : Staying Sherpa
  • CONCLUSION Virtual Sherpas in Circulation
  • APPENDIX A Khentse Rinpoche Lecture, Tengboche 1987
  • APPENDIX B Excerpts from "The Stages of Repelling Demons Based on the Heart Sutra, the Summary of the Vast, Intermediate, and Condensed Mothers"
  • APPENDIX C Musings on Textuality and Truth
  • APPENDIX D Production/Seduction
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Sherpa Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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