Book
High religion: a cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Ortner, Sherry B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a detailed description of the establishment of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early 20th century. Using a combination of ethnographic and oral-history methods, the author attempts to answer the questions of how, by whom, and why these monasteries were founded. Ortner employs the technique of 'practice' anthropology to study the relationship between human intentions and actions on one hand and those structures of culture and society on the other which feed back and emerge from the intentions and actions of others. Ortner's work constitutes a major advance in the knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism as well as in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Traditional history
- History
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Literary texts
- Status, role, and prestige
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Arranging a marriage
- Family relationships
- Sacred objects and places
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Purification and atonement
- Prophets and ascetics
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- 1966-1976
- 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, northeastern Nepal
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Sherry B. Ortner
- Includes bibliographical references (p.225-236)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89030337
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sherpa (Nepalese people)