The Sherpas And Their Original Identity

Author : Serku Sherpa,Yana Wengel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527594401

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The Sherpas and Their Original Identity by Serku Sherpa,Yana Wengel Pdf

This book offers a cultural and historical perspective on the Sherpa people, exploring how their traditional way of life has been impacted by such factors as urbanisation, modernisation, globalisation, and tourism. Though Nepal is a small country, it is rich in ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural resources. Various communities living in Nepal, including the Sherpas, have their own original cultures, traditions, and practices. Despite outside influence, the Sherpa people have preserved their distinct lifestyle, which encompasses a unique history, culture, religion, language, cuisine, and set of traditions. It was only after the summit of Everest in 1953 that domestic and foreign scholars began to take an interest in documenting the Sherpa people’s way of life. The Sherpa’s language is an oral one, and with this comes difficulties. Various translations into other languages have caused mistranslations and a loss of meaning. Written by a Sherpa, this book seeks to overcome these linguistic barriers and bring Sherpa culture to the reader. Serving as a collection of knowledge from distinguished scholars of the Sherpa community, religious leaders, intellectuals, social workers, and community organisations, this book is a unique (auto)ethnographic work which bridges the gap between researchers speaking other languages and Sherpa people.

Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691211770

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Life and Death on Mt. Everest by Sherry B. Ortner Pdf

The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing, but an American climber observing the scene interpreted their thoughts: Nobody would throw the body of a white climber off Mt. Everest. For more than a century, climbers from around the world have journ-eyed to test themselves on Everest's treacherous slopes, enlisting the expert aid of the Sherpas who live in the area. Drawing on years of field research in the Himalayas, renowned anthropologist Sherry Ortner presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk. Ortner explores this relationship partly through gripping accounts of expeditions--often in the climbers' own words--ranging from nineteenth-century forays by the British through the historic ascent of Hillary and Tenzing to the disasters described in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. She reveals the climbers, or "sahibs," to use the Sherpas' phrase, as countercultural romantics, seeking to transcend the vulgarity and materialism of modernity through the rigor and beauty of mountaineering. She shows how climbers' behavior toward the Sherpas has ranged from kindness to cruelty, from cultural sensitivity to derision. Ortner traces the political and economic factors that led the Sherpas to join expeditions and examines the impact of climbing on their traditional culture, religion, and identity. She examines Sherpas' attitude toward death, the implications of the shared masculinity of Sherpas and sahibs, and the relationship between Sherpas and the increasing number of women climbers. Ortner also tackles debates about whether the Sherpas have been "spoiled" by mountaineering and whether climbing itself has been spoiled by commercialism.

Author : Tashi Tenzing,Judy Tenzig
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780730493587

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Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest by Tashi Tenzing,Judy Tenzig Pdf

In 2003, the world will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and tenzing Norgay Sherpa's historic ascent of Mount Everest, an event which became the defining moment in 20th-century adventure and delivered fame and glory to the men who took part in the expedition. All, perhaps, except tenzing, who, after a brief honeymoon period with the world's media and political leaders, returned to his humble home in the hill station of Darjeeling, India, and never properly received the credit and plaudits he so richly deserved. In 1986 he passed away, having touched the hearts of all those he came across, and having done so much for his people. tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest is the inspiring story of this poor and illiterate man who left his small ancestral village in a remote part of the Himalaya and through grit, courage and sheer determination climbed the world's highest mountain and become a hero around the globe. But it is also a tribute to tenzing's family and the Sherpa people who have contributed so much to exploration in the Himalaya over the last hundred years.

Author : Cynthia Russ Ramsay
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
ISBN : 9780740729508

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Sir Edmund Hillary & the People of Everest by Cynthia Russ Ramsay Pdf

When 33-year-old New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa climbing partner Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953, they congratulated each other with a handshake and a hearty embrace. It was the beginning of a lifelong relationship between Hillary and the Sherpa people-a people whose courage, skill, and generosity of spirit made Himalayan exploration possible. Sir Edmund Hillary and the People of Everest is a story of giving back. The book begins with a vivid recounting of the conquest of Mt. Everest and goes on to beautifully chronicle Hillary's humanitarian and environmental efforts over the last half century. His work on behalf of the Sherpas includes raising funds, building schools, setting up two hospitals, and opening 12 medical clinics. His deep love, respect, and concern for the Sherpa people is unwavering, and his commitment shines through in whatever project is at hand.Using personal interviews and intimate photographs, photographer Anne B. Keiser and writer Cynthia Russ Ramsay paint an insightful portrait of an extraordinary man and his unmatched devotion to preserving the culture of the Sherpa people.

Author : Vincanne Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400851775

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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas by Vincanne Adams Pdf

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.

Author : Tashi Tenzing,Judy Tenzing
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110371338

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Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest by Tashi Tenzing,Judy Tenzing Pdf

Focusing on some of the most famous climbs of the Himalayas, the author tells the story of his grandfather, Tenzing Norgay, who guided Hillary on the first successful ascent of Everest. He also explores many aspects of Sherpa society and history.

Author : Davide Torri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317108153

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Landscape, Ritual and Identity among the Hyolmo of Nepal by Davide Torri Pdf

This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal. Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface that exists in the animated landscape of the Himalayas. Opening with an analysis of the ethnic revival of Nepal, the book first considers the Himalayan religious landscape and its people. Specific attention is then given to Helambu, home of the Hyolmo people, within the framework of Tibetan Buddhism. The discussion then turns to the persisting shamanic tradition of the region and the ritual dynamics of Hyolmo culture. The book concludes by considering broader questions of Hyolmo identity in the Nepalese context, as well as reflecting on the interconnection of landscape, ritual and identity. Offering a unique insight into a fascinating Himalayan culture and its formation, this book will be of great interest to scholars of indigenous peoples and religion across religious studies, Buddhist studies, cultural anthropology and South Asian studies.

Author : M. S. Kohli
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053020569

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Sherpas, the Himalayan Legends by M. S. Kohli Pdf

Sherpas: The Himalayan Legends Is A Compelling Narrative Of The Hardy Sherpas Who Inhabit The Solu Khumbu District Of Nepal And The City Of Darjeeling In India. The Book Is Based On The Author S Personal Intimate Experience, Human Relations And Meticulous Research.

Author : Ngawang Tenzin (Zangbu.),Frances Klatzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sherpa (Nepalese people)
ISBN : IND:30000055313682

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Stories and Customs of the Sherpas by Ngawang Tenzin (Zangbu.),Frances Klatzel Pdf

Author : James F. Fisher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520909946

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Sherpas by James F. Fisher Pdf

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.

Author : Judy Tenzing,Tashi Tenzing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0709072260

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Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest by Judy Tenzing,Tashi Tenzing Pdf

In 2003, the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa's historic ascent of Mount Everest, an event which became a defining moment in twentieth-century adventure and delivered fame and glory to the men who took part in Colonel John Hunt's expedition. All perhaps, except Tenzing, who, after a brief honeymoon period with the world's media and political leaders, returned to his humble home in the hill station of Darjeeling, India, and never properly received the credit and plaudits he so richly deserved. Written by Tenzing's mountaineer grandson Tashi, who himself has also conquered Everest, and his wife Judy, Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest uncovers one of the greatuntold stories of the world of mountaineering, and pays long-overdue homage to the Sherpas, without whom the summit of Everest would have remained an impossible dream for climbers the world over.

Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521292166

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Sherpas Through Their Rituals by Sherry B. Ortner Pdf

Professor Ortner examines the Sherpas of the Himalayas.

Author : Charles Robert Stonor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition
ISBN : UOM:39015019204927

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The Sherpa and the Snowman by Charles Robert Stonor Pdf

Author : Jonathan Neale
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781429978583

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Tigers of the Snow by Jonathan Neale Pdf

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.

Author : Stanley F. Stevens
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 8120813456

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Claiming the High Ground by Stanley F. Stevens Pdf

Stanley Stevens brings new ecological and historical perspectives to his study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Sherpas of the Mount Everest region, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world`s highest-altitude tourist boom. But have the Sherpas and their homeland been transformed by tourism? He is the first to analyze the complex interaction of local environmental knowledge, cultural beliefs, and socio-economic and political conditions in changing sherpas subsistence strategies, land use practices, and local resources management institutions. Claiming the High ground is must reading for all those interested peoples and concerned about the conservation of the earth`s high places.