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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Anthropology online. net".
- catalog contributor b8184445.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Lament for Pasang 3 -- Chapter 1 Sherpas in Mirrors 39 -- Chapter 2 Making Modern Sherpas 79 -- Chapter 3 Buddhist Sherpas as Others 121 -- Chapter 4 The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas 171 -- Chapter 5 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," / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 247 -- Appendix C Musings on Textuality and Truth 251 -- Appendix D Production/Seduction 257.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 304 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691001111 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691034419 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Nepal.".
- catalog subject "305.8/0095496 20".
- catalog subject "DS493.9.S5 A33 1996".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Nepal.".
- catalog subject "Sherpa (Nepalese people)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Lament for Pasang 3 -- Chapter 1 Sherpas in Mirrors 39 -- Chapter 2 Making Modern Sherpas 79 -- Chapter 3 Buddhist Sherpas as Others 121 -- Chapter 4 The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas 171 -- Chapter 5 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," / Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 247 -- Appendix C Musings on Textuality and Truth 251 -- Appendix D Production/Seduction 257.".
- catalog title "Tigers of the snow and other virtual Sherpas : an ethnography of Himalayan encounters / Vincanne Adams.".
- catalog type "text".