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    The document discusses the livelihood of Sherpas in the highlands of Nepal. Sherpas have traditionally relied on various agricultural and pastoral strategies depending on the season and altitude, including swidden agriculture, mixed farming, agro-pastoralism, and pastoral nomadism. More recently, tourism has become a major part of the economy in Sherpa regions. Sherpas have adapted to tourism and maintained their cultural identity and subsistence practices despite economic changes. Forests also play an important religious and economic role for Sherpas and many forests are protected.

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    CLAIMING THE HIGHGROUND

    Stanley F. Stevens

    THE LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS


    IN THE HIGHGROUNDS OF
    NEPAL
    Presented By:
    1. Deepa Acharya
    2. Susmita Chhetri
    3. Srijana Devkota
    SHERPAS

    • Sherpas are one of a number of people of Tibetan Origin and


    cultural affinities who have migrated sooth to settle the northern
    regions of the Himalayas.

    • They are also sometimes referred to as Bhotes and Bhotenis.

    • Khumbu Sherpa initially earned their world wide renown through


    reports of their mountaineering exploits during first half of the
    century.
    SHERPAS

    • The heartland of Sherpa country is the upper Dudhkoshi valley and


    the valley of one of its major tributaries, the Solukhola, often
    known as Solu-Khumbu. According to history this region was the
    first area settled by the ancestors of the Sherpas after their
    migration from Tibet some ninenteen generation ago.

    • Khumbu Sherpa initially earned their world wide renown through


    reports of their mountaineering exploits during first half of this
    century.
    SHERPAS

    • The most renowned and well studied of all many Sherpa groups are
    the Sherpas of Khumbu, the high valleys at the roof of mountain.

    • Sherpas used to harvest potatoes, barley and herd yak at high


    altitudes.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    • Khumbu Sherpas depends on typical high altitude agropastoral


    strategy, which contains agriculture and pastoralism.

    • Generally, their strategy of subsistence depending upon the season


    and altitude which are:
    1. Swidden Agriculture
    2. Mixed Farming
    3. Middle altitude agro-pastoralism
    4. High-altitude agro-pastoralism
    5. Pastoral Nomadism
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    Swidden Agriculture

    • One of the activity Sherpas do in dry season is clearing the land by


    using fire and make it available to cultivate for the appropriate crops.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    Mixed Farming

    • The variety of grains and crops are cultivated for farming which are
    related to altitude. Like, root crops are increasingly important at high
    altitudes.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    Middle-altitude agro-pastoralism

    • Middle altitude agro-pastoral peoples often also participate in complex


    regional interlatitudinal and Trans-Himalayan trade networks. This
    trade brings the people of the lower altitude regions salt, wool, seed
    potatoes, and other valued products from the high valleys and Tibet in
    exchange for agricultural surplus grown on midlands.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    High-altitude agro-pastoralism

    • At high altitudes crops can only be produced during the summer and
    generally there is not enough time in short growing season to cultivate
    more than a single crop per year of a small number of plants fit for high
    altitude.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    Pastoral Nomadism

    • A way of life of a people who do not live continually in the same place
    but move cyclically or periodically.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    • The largest sacred forests in Khumbu are those that were


    established by the personal intervention of local religious leaders
    such as Lama forests.

    • In past twenty years, the International concern about environment in


    Khumbu is tourism development and changing Sherpa lifestyles and
    land use have resulted in deforestation crisis.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    • Sherpa people have borrowed the notion of protected forest from


    sacred groves they may have heared about or seen during their
    migration across Tibet to Nepal.

    • They believe that some forest were regarded as sacred. Others


    forest were protected for religious reasons during succeeding
    centuries.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    • The economic and religious importance of forests of Khumbu’s


    trees has led Sherpas to protect the forest.
    LIVELIHOOD OF SHERPAS IN HIMALAYAS

    • In recent years, the Sherpa’s homeland has become a major


    international tourist attraction comprising of more than 8000
    mountaineers and trekking tourists per year now visits the region.

    • Stanley F. Steven focused on how Sherpas have coped with tourism


    and the national park and have continued to maintain their identity,
    cultural values, and subsistence practices despite major economic
    change.
    THANK YOU!

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