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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495872203321

Autore

Stevens Stanley F

Titolo

Claiming the high ground : Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya / / Stanley F. Stevens [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993

ISBN

0-585-10825-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 537 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

304.2/095496

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 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.