Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan EncountersPrinceton University Press, 1996 - 304 頁 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. |
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Sherpas in Mirrors | 39 |
Making Modern Sherpas | 79 |
Buddhist Sherpas as Others | 121 |
The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas | 171 |
Seduction and Simulative Power in the Himalayas Staying Sherpa | 206 |
Virtual Sherpas in Circulation | 233 |
Khentse Rinpoche Lecture Tengboche 1987 | 243 |
Excerpts from The Stages of Repelling Demons Based on the Heart Sutra the Summary of the Vast Intermediate and Condensed Mothers | 247 |