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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Lament for Pasang
- Ch. 1. Sherpas in Mirrors
- Ch. 2. Making Modern Sherpas
- Ch. 3. Buddhist Sherpas as Others
- Ch. 4. The Intimacy of Shamanic Sherpas
- Ch. 5. Seduction and Simulative Power in the Himalayas: Staying Sherpa
- Conclusion: Virtual Sherpas in Circulation
- Appendix A Khentse Rinpoche Lecture, Tengboche, 1987
- Appendix B Exerpts from "The Stages of Repelling Demons Based on the Heart Sutra, the Summary of the Vast, Intermediate, and Condensed Mothers"
- Appendix C Musings on Textuality and Truth
- Appendix D Production/Seduction.