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UNINA9910495872203321 |
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Autore |
Stevens Stanley F |
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Claiming the high ground : Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya / / Stanley F. Stevens [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 537 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human ecology - Nepal - Khumbu Valley |
Sherpa (Nepalese people) - Economic conditions |
Landscape changes - Nepal - Khumbu Valley |
Human ecology - Economic conditions - Nepal - Khumbu Valley |
Sherpa (Nepalese people) - Khumbu Valley - Nepal |
Landscape changes |
Anthropology |
Social Sciences |
Anthropogeography & Human Ecology |
Khumbu Valley (Nepal) Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; pt. 1. Sherpa Cultural Ecology -- ; 1. Sherpa Country -- ; 2. High-Altitude Economy -- ; 3. Farming on the Roof of the World -- ; 4. Good Country for Yak -- ; 5. Sacred Forests and Fuel Wood -- ; pt. 2. Economic and Environmental Change -- ; 6. Four Centuries of Agropastoral Change -- ; 7. Subsistence, Adaptation, and Environmental Change -- ; 8. Local Resource Management: Decline and Persistence -- ; 9. From Tibet Trading to the Tourist Trade -- ; 10. Tourism, Local Economy, and Environment. Appendix A: Major Himalayan Peaks -- Appendix B: The Sherpa/Tibetan Calendar -- Appendix C: Chronology of Khumbu History. |
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