Open AccessTREKKING TO TENGBOCHE: Sherpas and the Tourist Challenge
Author(s) -
Thomas P. O’Neill
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of anthropology at mcmaster
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0707-3771
DOI - 10.15173/nexus.v10i1.130
Subject(s) - schema (genetic algorithms) , tourism , relation (database) , identity (music) , context (archaeology) , geography , sociology , history , aesthetics , computer science , archaeology , art , database , machine learning
The rapid increase in tourism and trekking in eastern Nepal is challenging the social identity of the Sherpas. This must be seen in the wider context of Sherpa history, and how cultural schemata mediated contradictons and external challenges in the past. In particular, the Sherpa custom of yangdzi provides a schema that best situates Sherpa society in relation to modern challenges.