Sherpas
Subtitle: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780520069411
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; General; Tourism; Solukhumbu; Asia - India; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Education; Description and travel; Nepal; Sherpa (Nepalese people); Solukhumbu (Nepal)
First sentence: As a self-proclaimed science, anthropology until recently paid little attention to the personal impact of the field experience on the observer-how the raw condition of life in some remote corner of the world affected the anthropologist's life and, especially, observations and conclusions.