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