Sherpas
Subtitle: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780520067707
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Tourism; Nepal; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Travel - General; Solukhumbu (Nepal); Sociology; Solukhumbu; Sherpa (Nepalese people); Anthropology - General; Asia - India; Customs & Traditions; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Description and travel; Education
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.