book chapter
Himalayan traders: life in highland Nepal
John Murray • London • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a sequel to the author's book, THE SHERPAS OF NEPAL (1: Fürer-Haimendorf). The present source covers subjects not discussed in the previous study, such as settlement patterns, the farming economy, trade, crafts, tourism, and social and political change. Much emphasis here is on the effects of agriculture, animal husbandry, and trade on the Sherpa economy. Chapter 3 provides some rather interesting data on the employment of Sherpas as mountaineering and tourist guides by foreign nationals. Several chapters deal with other non-Sherpa populations of Nepal and have not been processed (chapters 5-7).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Pastoral activities
- Dairying
- Tillage
- Cordage
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Normal garb
- Clothing manufacture
- Settlement patterns
- Production and supply
- External trade
- Labor supply and employment
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sherpa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Khumbu region, Nepal
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
- Pages included: i-xvi, 1-105, 286-313
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sherpa (Nepalese people)