Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Note on Orthography xvii
6. Dramatis Personae xix
7. Chronology of Sherpa History xxiii
8. CHAPTER I Introduction: The Project, the People, and the Problem 1
9. CHAPTER II The Early History of the Sherpas: Fraternal Contradictions 19
10. CHAPTER III The Founding of the First Sherpa Temple: Political Contradictions 45
11. CHAPTER IV The Meaning of Temple Founding: Cultural Schemas 59
12. CHAPTER V The Sherpas and the State 82
13. CHAPTER VI The Political Economy of Monastery Foundings 99
14. CHAPTER VII The Big People Found the Monasteries: Legitimation and Self-Worth 124
15. CHAPTER VIII The Small People 150
16. CHAPTER IX Monks and Nuns 168
17. CHAPTER X Conclusions: Sherpa History and a Theory of Practice 193
18. APPENDIX I Two Zombie Stories of Early Khumbu 203
19. APPENDIX II Addendum to the Tengboche Chayik 205
20. Notes 207
21. Glossary 221
22. References 225
23. Index 237