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Sherpas, Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal
by James Fisher
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 1990
- PAPER
- 205 PAGES
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A study of Sherpa society and the change that mountaineering and trekking have brought, which combines the qualities of a memoir and anthropological study. Fisher, who participated in a 1964 expedition to build schools in the region, quotes extensively from interviews, letting the Sherpas speak for themselves. well chosen photographs document change in the region. Fisher concludes it was the airstrip that the team constructed which has had the greatest impact on tourism and, by extension, Sherpa society.
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