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Life and Death on Mt. Everest

By Ortner, Sherry B

Life and Death on Mt. Everest General education

Life and Death on Mt. Everest

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"Sherry Ortner's Life and Death on Mt. Everest is a stunning book: it is a probing ethnography of the strange, unequal relationship between 'sahibs' and Sherpas, a suggestive social history of the contemporary leisure class, and a powerful, often painful meditation on the cult and culture of high-risk mountaineering. With a humane, ironic, steady, and compassionate gaze, Ortner looks at lives lived at the edge of an abyss."--Stephen Greenblatt "Sherry Ortner's Life and Death on Mt. Everest is an extraordinary study of the Sherpa people, opening windows into the realities of their lives and minds, a revelatory look at the whole mountaineering thing from their perspective, and an amazingly rich account of the fascinating world of the Himalayas and the Tibetan peoples. This book is a must read for any student of Tibet and the history of the interactions of Westerners and Tibetan peoples."--Robert Thurman "Ortner has always been one of the clearest and most forceful writers among contemporary anthropologists and her wit and lucidity are once again in evidence here."--Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago "This highly readable book demonstrates the best of what contemporary anthropology can offer scholars and the reading public alike. A fascinating account of a timely subject."--Naomi Bishop
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
392
Release Date:
2001-02-12
Publication Date:
2001-03-04
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691074488
ISBN13:
9780691074481
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
531 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
24 cm

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