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Introduction


Press articles

Sherpas irked at their misportrayal, by Dev Kumar Sunuwar (kp 18/08/2010)

The Sherpa in me: The tree's roots are in the earth but its branches are all over, by Duksangh Sherpa (nt 29/01/2010)

Sherpa names rooted in weekdays, by Pragati Shahi (kp 05/09/2009)

The Sherpa beyul: One of the best resources on Sherpa culture produced so far, review by Kanak Mani Dixit (nt 28/11/2008)

Couple engaged in womb ties knot at 14, by Surendra Subedi (kp 18/10/2008)

Sherpa couple finds home away from home in Rockies, by Bibeka Shrestha (kp 28/09/2008)

Bhote Tea popularity declines (Space Time Tpoday, 25/11/2002)

Seven years with my Korean fathers, the story of Pasang Sherpa (Nepali Times, 08/11/2002)

Between Buddhist Traditions And Cyber-surfing, by Kurt Luger (Spotlight, 16/08/2002)

Ghunsa: A Natural Hermitage, by Rajendra Gurung (Sunday Post, 28/04/2002)

Chronic lung disease rampant in hills: Study, by Tilak Pokharel (Kathmandu Post, 27/03/2002)

Trekking to Cloud 9 in Nepal, by Susan Spano (Los Angeles Times, 08/09/2001). On relationships between male Sherpas and female Americans

A new challenge: A different kind of trek (Newsday.com, 08/08/2001). On Sherpas in New York. See also For Sherpas, U.S. offers new peaks (Chicago Tribune, 24/08/2001)

Know your Sherpa, by Pema Sherpa (Sunday Post, 11/03/2001)

Youth and Social Change, by Jagannath Adhikari (Kathmandu Post, 10/12/2000), a book review of "Kids of Khumbu"

Kids of Khumbu: Sherpa Youth on the Modernity Trail (Spotlight, 10/11/2000). Review of Kurt Luger's book by Sandra Broitman

Power Para Gliding in the Kathmandu sky (People's Review, 28/09/2000)

Book Review: Fire, a motif that binds (Sunday Post, 20/02/2000) (Sunday Post, 20/02/2000)


Background

Sherpa clans

Sherpa identity, by Barbara Pijan Lama

Sherpa personal names

Lhakpa Doma Salaka-Binasa Sherpa (Lhakpa Sherpani) (1997). Runaway. In: Himalayan Research Bulletin 17,2:11-16.

Lhakpa Doma Salaka-Binasa Sherpa (Lhakpa Sherpani) (1994). Sherwa mi - viel' Steine gab's und wenig Brot: Eine Sherpa-Tochter erzählt. Bad Honnef: Deutsche Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung 1994. [A lively introduction into life, mentality, society and culture of the Sherpa of the Takshindu area (in German)]

Lhakpa Doma Salaka-Binasa Sherpa and Karl-Heinz Kraemer (1992). Family Planning in Nepal: A Field Example for Urgency. In: C.-A. Seyschab, A. Sievers and S. Szynkiewicz (eds.), Frontiers, Boundaries, Limits: Their Notions and their Experiences in East Asia, pp. 131-138. Unkel, Bad Honnef: Horlemann 1992.

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