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100 1 $aOrtner, Sherry B.,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80139387
245 10 $aLife and death on Mt. Everest :$bSherpas and Himalayan mountaineering /$cSherry B. Ortner.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axii, 376 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-367) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tBeginning -- $gCh. 2.$tSahibs -- $gCh. 3.$tSherpas -- $gCh. 4.$tMonks -- $gCh. 5.$tDeath -- $gCh. 6.$tMen -- $gCh. 7.$tCounterculture -- $gCh. 8.$tWomen -- $gCh. 9.$tReconfigurations -- $gCh. 10.$tEpilogue -- $gApp. A.$tTales -- $gApp. B.$tMonasteries.
520 1 $a"Anthropologist Sherry Ortner presents an account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk." "Ortner explores this relationship partly through accounts of expeditions - often in the climbers' own words - ranging from nineteenth-century forays by the British through the historic ascent of Hillary and Tenzing to the disasters described in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. She shows how climbers' behavior toward the Sherpas has ranged from kindness to cruelty, from cultural sensitivity to derision. Ortner traces the political and economic factors that led the Sherpas to join expeditions and examines the impact of climbing on their traditional culture, religion, and identity. She examines Sherpas' attitudes toward death, the implications of the shared masculinity of Sherpas and sahibs, and the relationship between Sherpas and the increasing number of women climbers. Ortner also tackles debates about whether the Sherpas have been "spoiled" by mountaineering and whether climbing itself has been spoiled by commercialism."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMountaineering$zEverest, Mount (China and Nepal)$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010102599
650 0 $aSherpa (Nepalese people)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85121375
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/prin031/99031247.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin032/99031247.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/99031247.html
852 00 $bbar$hGV199.44.E85$iO78 1999
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