Himalayan Herders

By Naomi Hawes Bishop

This first general case study about the Sherpa people in the Yolmo region of Nepal helps to place the more familiar Sherpa of the Solu-Khumbu region of Mt. Everest in comparative context. This study... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0155051725
• ISBN13: 9780155051720
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A new perspective on an old way of life!

First reading this book for an anthropolgy course, I had no idea how fascinating it was going to be. The book is a detailed description of the life of himalayan herders, specifically focusing on the village of Melemchi in Nepal. It describes the agrobusiness that subsidies the main activity of milk and milk by product production. Also, the intricate lives of these people and their interdependence betwen them and their environment is maginificent. All in all, awesome information with simple but detailed text. This is a great book for those who are interested in learning about different world cultures, and the author makes it easy to identify with people who live a much simpler, but just as work filled, as ours. Great book and very interesting!