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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas : An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: Adams, Vincanne [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.); 25 halftones
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781400851775
  • ISBN: 9781400851775
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Ethnology Nepal ; Sherpa (Nepalese people) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; Aphorism ; Attack dog ; Avalokitesvara ; Baksheesh ; Bardo Thodol ; Bhutan ; Bodhi ; Bodhicitta ; Bodhisattva ; Buddhahood ; Buddhism and Hinduism ; Buddhism ; Buddhist cosmology ; Buddhist philosophy ; Buddhist texts ; Butter lamp ; Butter tea ; Cannibalism ; Cargo cult ; Cretinism ; Criticism of capitalism ; [...]
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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
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