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HASS 498 -- Nepal and Himalayan Culture

This guide is for the students learning about Nepal and students participating in the Nepali service learning trips

Books to get you started

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Call Number: GV199.44.E85 K725 1997
Capacity Development for Scaling up Decentralized Energy Access Programmes by UNDP Staff; Elisabeth Clemens; Kamal Rijal; Minoru Takada
Call Number: TJ163.25.N35 C59 2010
Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan mountaineering by Sherry B. Ortner
Call Number: GV199.44.E85 O78 1999
Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya by Stanley F. Stevens
Call Number: GF696.N35 S74 1993

Also an e-book

Course Reserves

Through a Sherpa Window: Illustrated Guide to Traditional Sherpa Culture by Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa
Call Number: On reserve at the front desk
High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism by Sherry B. Ortner
Call Number: On reserve at the front desk
Basic Nepali: A Beginners Guide by Rajesh Baidya
Call Number: PK2595 .B3 2016
Nepali Phrasebook and Dictionary by Lonely Planet Publications Staff
Call Number: PK2596 .O76 2014
Complete Nepali by Michael Hutt; Abhi Subedi
Call Number: PK2596 .H88 2016