Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
by Sherry B. Ortner
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Author: Sherry B. OrtnerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN: 0691074488
Number of pages: 376
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Book Review: Bad Reviews Reflect Cultural Ignorance- This book is a GEM!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a critical culture theory treasure. Typically, I would not make an effort to defend a book on Amazon, but in this case it seems necessary. Apparently, previous purchasers were expecting this book to be about Sherpa culture, which it clearly is to anyone who studies culture (perhaps say, an anthropologist, which is precisely what Sherry Ortner is). The commodification of culture by individuals in Western nations is unmistakably represented in these remarks. Obviously they were expecting some form of rationalization for the impact of middle class, white, adventure-seekers on the Sherpa culture. Needless to say, a critical reading of this book (in my opinion, what it was intended for) would isolate for these reviewers that the Sherpa culture is more dynamic than the reading of the first sentence might lead one to believe. I would suggest this book to anyone with the patience and intelligence to read it thoroughly and critically while setting their ethnocentric ideas of the world to the side. Sherry Ortner is, if not the most profound anthropologist of contemporary times, one of them. This book is amazing.
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