INDIGENEITY

INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE | ANTHROPOLOGY OF SHERPA

SPECIAL ISSUE

Guest editor with Charlotte Eubanks. 2018. Special Issue on “Indigeneity” for Verge: Studies in Global Asias 4 (2). University of Minnesota Press.

INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE

Sherpa, P. Y., Chakraborty, R., & Carrara, A. (2024). 10 Indigeneity. Introducing Human Geographies, 129.

Eubanks, C., & Sherpa, P. Y. (2018). We Are (Are We?) All Indigenous Here, and Other Claims about Space, Place, and Belonging in Asia. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4(2), vi-xiv.

Sherpa, P. Y. (2018). Introduction: Continuing Community Collaborations and the Transient Digital. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4(2), 54-56.

Sherpa, P. Y. (2009). Indigenous movements: identification of indigenous concerns in Nepal. MA thesis.(Washington State University).

PUBLIC

Sherpa, P.Y. (2023). “Questioning Indigeneity,” The Mail, The New Yorker, March 13, 2023.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF SHERPA

Sherpa, P. Y. (2022). Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the High Himalaya: Themes, trajectories, and beyond. In Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia (pp. 182-194). Routledge.

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019). Preserving Sherpa Language and Culture in New York. Book 2.0 9(1).

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019). "Indigenous Sherpa Religion," in Marine Carrin, Michel Boivin, Gerard Toffin, Paul Hockings, Raphael Rousseleau, Tanka Subba and Harald Lambs-Tyche (eds.), Brill's Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia Online.

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2017). "Community and Resilience among Sherpas in the Post-Earthquake Everest Region," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 37 : No. 2 , Article 13.

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2017). "Review of Sherpa: Trouble on Everest by Jennifer Peedom,"HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 37 : No. 1 , Article 32.

PUBLIC

September 2021 “Mountain As Metaphor: A Future of Multiple Worldviews” in Alpinist 75.

December 29, 2017 The New York Times "Letter to the Editor" about the article "Deliverance from 27,000 feet"

September 2017 "Explaining Ethnography in the Field: A Conversation Between Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Carole McGranahan" for Savage Minds [Anthrodendum].

May 2017 "Looking in the Mirror (Part 1, 2, and 3)" for Savage Minds [Anthrodendum].

Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2007) “Identification of New Tourism Product, Solukhumbu.” Pro-Poor Rural Tourism Initiatives and its Sustainability in Nepal. TRPAP-UNDP, Nepal

MEDIA

March 2020 "The Mounting Risks of Summiting Mount Everest." Top of Mind with Julie Rose on BYU Radio.

May 2019 "Sherpas on Everest: 'This is a Sacred Mountain. We Need to Respect It." The Daily Beast.

April 2019 "The Story about Dead Bodies on Everest that Got 3m Hits." Over to You on BBC World Service.

May 2014 "Everest on Edge." The Stream on Al Jazeera English discuss the 2014 spring disaster on Mt. Everest.

April 2014 "When You Call Someone a Sherpa, What Does that Mean?" PRI's The World.

April 2014 "Deaths on Everest Put Spotlight on Sherpa Labor," interview  by Rob Verger for Newsweek.

April 2014 "Everest Shrugged: Why the deadliest day on the world’s tallest mountain won’t change the lives of Nepal’s sherpas," interview by Kyle Knight for Foreign Policy.