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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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1996.
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