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Barrier islands --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- From 2 million years ago --- Mustang Island (Nueces County, Tex.) --- Texas

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An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism and in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis. At the theoretical level, the book contributes to an emerging theory of "practice," an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the structures of society and culture that emerge from and feed back upon those intentions and actions on the other. It will appeal not only to the increasing number of anthropologists working on similar problems but also to historians anxious to discover what anthropology has to offer to historical analysis. In addition, it will be essential reading for those interested in Nepal, Tibet, the Sherpa, or Buddhism in general.

Budismo --- Sherpas (Pueblo de Nepal) --- Aspectos sociales --- Historia. --- Amali (gembu). --- Bir Shumshere (Rana). --- Bogle, George. --- Celibate monks. --- Classlessness in Sherpa society. --- Dawa Tenzing. --- Debt slavery. --- Dumje festival. --- Exorcisms. --- Gelungma Palma. --- Gembu Tsepal. --- Hastings, Warren. --- Helambu people. --- Inheritance patterns. --- Jang Bahadur (Rana). --- Kemba Dorje. --- Kusang. --- Lama Rena Lingba. --- Levi-Strauss, C. --- Makwan Sher. --- Maoi Rimdu festival. --- Mustang province. --- Nangpa La (pass). --- Ngawang Samden (nun). --- Offering rituals. --- Parsons, Talcott. --- Polyandry. --- Potato cultivation. --- Ram, Hari. --- Serkim gompa. --- Strongman politics. --- Tashilhunpo monastery.

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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrains and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Ethnology --- Sherpa. --- Nepal --- Nepal. --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Sherpas --- Bhotia (Tibetan people) --- Cộng hòa dân chủ liên bang Nepal --- Demokratische Bundesrepublik Nepal --- Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Nepalo --- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal --- Federale Democratische Republiek Nepal --- Federativnai͡a Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika Nepal --- Federatyvna Demokratychna Respublika Nepal --- Kingdom of Nepal --- Kongeriget Nepal --- Nepā --- Nepal Adhirajya --- Nepāla --- Nepālas Federālā Demokrātiskā Republika --- Nepalgo Errepublika Demokratiko Federala --- Nepali Demokraatlik Liitvabariik --- Nepalia --- Nepalin demokraattinen liittotasavalta --- Nepalo --- Nepāru --- Ni-po-erh --- Nibo'er --- Nīpāl --- República Federal Democrática de Nepal --- República Federal Democràtica del Nepal --- République démocratique fédérale du Népal --- Respublika Nepal --- Sambandslýðveldið Nepal --- Sanghiya Loktāntrik Ganatantra Nepāl --- Savezna Demokratska Republika Nepal --- Namche Bazar (Népal) --- Lo Manthang (Népal) --- Mustang (Népal) --- Gyasumdo (Népal) --- Dolpā (Népal) --- Teraï --- Asie du Sud --- Aphorism. --- Attack dog. --- Avalokitesvara. --- Baksheesh. --- Bardo Thodol. --- Bhutan. --- Bodhi. --- Bodhicitta. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism and Hinduism. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist cosmology. --- Buddhist philosophy. --- Buddhist texts. --- Butter lamp. --- Butter tea. --- Cannibalism. --- Cargo cult. --- Cretinism. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Crossbreed. --- Dalai Lama. --- Deity. --- Doonesbury. --- Ethnography. --- Exorcism. --- Externality. --- False consciousness. --- Great Goddess. --- Heart Sutra. --- Hermann Broch. --- Heterotopia (space). --- Hillbilly. --- Himalayan Trust. --- Hungry ghost. --- Hypothyroidism. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Impermanence. --- Impossibility. --- Jargon. --- Jean Baudrillard. --- Kalachakra. --- Kathmandu. --- Khumbu. --- Madame Bovary. --- Mahayana. --- Marshall Sahlins. --- Mary Douglas. --- Michael Tobias. --- Mimesis. --- Mohan Lal (Zutshi). --- Monastery. --- Mongols. --- Mountain pass. --- Mountaineering. --- Mudra. --- Nagarjuna. --- Orientalism. --- Ownership (psychology). --- Padmasambhava. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Physician. --- Quentin Skinner. --- Racism. --- Religion. --- Rinpoche. --- Sa?sara. --- Severity (video game). --- Shamanism. --- Shangri-La. --- Sherpa people. --- Snow Lion. --- Sonam (actress). --- Spirit King. --- Sutra. --- Tantra. --- Tengboche. --- Thangka. --- The Monastery (TV series). --- Thick description. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Three Jewels. --- Tibet House. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Tibetan culture. --- Tibetan diaspora. --- Tibetan literature. --- Tibetan people. --- Transnationalism. --- Tulku. --- University of Arizona Press. --- Vajradhara. --- Vajrasattva. --- Vajrayana. --- Vihara. --- Vulture Peak. --- Wilderness medicine (practice). --- Yaksha. --- Yogi.