Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Rivendell Lodge-Deboche 9, Weddings and Marriage
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| Description: | Dawa describes the process of getting married. (Dawa is about to get married.) Some of the group is together by love marriage. Others are together by arranged marriage (including Ang Jangmu and Mingma Tsering). Tsering describes getting married to Ang Jangmu in Sherpa; LOTS of laughter. Explanation of the transition between arranged and love marriages; description of traditional Sherpa wedding. |
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| Created: | 2012-05-29 10:30 | ||||||||||
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| Collection: | World Oral Literature Project Collections | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||||||||
| Copyright: | World Oral Literature Project | ||||||||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||||||||
| Keywords: | sherpa; everest; trekking; yak; herding; | ||||||||||
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| Abstract: | These recordings were made on a trek in the spring of 2011 up to Mount Everest Base Camp. The recordings span a wide variety of topics from making and drinking chang to the work of Mount Everest's 'ice fall doctors'. |
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