Chicago School's Sherpa Studies from Structural Anthropology
This article traces the theoretical origination of the American anthropology on Sherpa studies,the one that is the most profound so far on this ethnic group.It was proved that both Robert Paul and Sherry B.Ortner have led this Chicago school of anthropology on Sherpa studies,which was a result of American adaptation of the French structuralism originally initiated by Lévi-Strauss.And with the psychoanalytic and symbolic-structural approaches,they contributed to our understanding of this ethnic group on the south side of the Himalaya.It checks,through a thorough reading of four books by these two authors,their contributions on the ideal social-cutural types of this group and how they were transformed in history.
Chicago school of structural anthropologySherpapsychoanalysissymbolic structurehistorical structure
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