TY - GEN T1 - Sherpas : reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal A1 - Fisher, James F. LA - English PP - Berkeley PB - University of California Press YR - 1990 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44957069 AB - 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. OP - 205 CN - DS493.9.S5 SN - 9780520909946 SN - 0520909941 SN - 0585236666 SN - 9780585236667 SN - 9780520067707 SN - 9780520069411 SN - 0520067703 SN - 0520069412 SN - 1282354930 SN - 9781282354937 KW - Sherpa (Nepalese people) KW - Solukhumbū (Nepal) : Description and travel. KW - Education : Nepal : Solukhumbū. KW - Tourism : Nepal : Solukhumbū. KW - Sherpa (Peuple du Népal) KW - Éducation : Népal : Solukhumbū. KW - Tourisme : Népal : Solukhumbū. KW - Solukhumbū (Népal) : Descriptions et voyages. KW - TRAVEL. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - Education KW - Tourism KW - Travel KW - Nepal : Solukhumbū KW - Sozialer Wandel KW - Tourisme : Népal. KW - Sherpa (peuple du Népal) KW - Solukhumbu (Népal) : Descriptions et voyages. KW - Sherpa. ER -