Tigers of the snow and other virtual Sherpas: an ethnography of Himalayan encounters
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 "au...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 terrains 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. |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 304 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0691034419 0691001111 |
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Autor: Adams, Vincanne
Jahr: 1996
Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Orthographic Note xv
Introduction
Lament for Pasang 3
Chapter One
Sherpas in Mirrors 39
Chapter Two
Making Modern Sherpas 79
Chapter Three
Buddhist Sherpas as Others 121
Chapter Four
The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas 171
Chapter Five
Seduction and Simulative Power in the Himalayas: Staying Sherpa 206
Conclusion
Virtual Sherpas in Circulation 233
Appendix A
Khentse Rinpoche Lecture, Tengboche, 1987 243
Appendix B
Excerpts from The Stages of Repelling Demons Based on
the Heart Sutra, the Summary of the Vast, Intermediate,
and Condensed Mothers, translated by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 247
Appendix C
Musings on Textuality and Truth 251
Appendix D
Production/Seduction 257
x ? Contents
Nous 263
Glossary of Sherpa Terms 283
Bibliography 289
Index 299
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