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

• Autore: Stevens Stanley F
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 537 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 304.2/095496
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Khumbu Valley (Nepal) Economic conditions
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Claiming the high ground
• Titolo autorizzato: Claiming the high ground
• ISBN: 0-585-10825-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495872203321
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