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Sherpa purity
American anthropologist • 75 • Published In 1973 • Pages: 49-63
By: Ortner, Sherry B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the relationship between explicit cultural forms or symbols and underlying cultural orientations in the society. The author assumes that the two are closely interrelated and that the symbolic forms themselves '…are the mechanism linking underlying cultural orientations to observable modes of socio-cultural action' (p. 49-A). Ortner elaborates on these points with detailed analysis of one such body of cultural forms represented by the concept of pollution among the Sherpas of Nepal.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Personality traits
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Social control
- Cosmology
- Purification and atonement
- Ethnopsychology
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1966-1968
- 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)
- Nepal
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Sherry B. Ortner
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sherpa (Nepalese people)