Sherpa Anthropological Reflections – Pasang Sherpa
We're excited to share recent reflections from our former Sacred Himalaya Initiative Postdoc Fellow Pasang Y. Sherpa on being a Sherpa Anthropologist. Dr. Sherpa writes: [...]
Day Nine: Sandalwood, Kurta, and a Rickshaw = Atiba’s in Heaven!
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/29/2015. I finally found sandalwood after a few days search!!! (Yes, Lex, I will be bring some for Ava, she’ll smell charming). [...]
Day Eight: Do you have any Indian Sandalwood Oil? I cannot find sandalwood anywhere, ugh!!!
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/27/2015: Today’s agenda: (1) visit the permit office to tour Union Carbide; (2) first round of interviews with staff/administration and doctors; (3) [...]
Museum Visit: Remember Bhopal Museum
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/26/2015. Here is one photo. I will upload more later (the internet is slow tonight). Every photo gives the option of listening [...]
Day Seven: Snakes on a Plane – or no, I mean, snakes in the garden
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/26/2015. Before coming to India I binged on a Nat Geo docu-series on Netflix called Wild India, woof, hoping to get accustomed [...]
Day Six: What is Ethnography? Is it like, ethnic geography or somethin’?
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/25/2015. Being an ethnographer you are required to be in situations deviant from the (your) norm. You find yourself in places studying [...]
Day Five: Buddha is Peeing Bullets—aka, it’s raining…after all, ‘tis monsoon season
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/25/2015. I went to one of the local malls that is a fifteen minute ride in a tuk tuk, man, what an [...]
Day Four: Henry David Thoreau Would Be Proud!
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/24/2015. I am having a cup of Indian green tea on the veranda, reading the Stoic philosophy of antiquity, listening to the [...]
Day Three: Morning Prayers and Bespoke Kurta
By ATIBA ROUGIER, 7/23/2015. Day Three: Morning Prayers and Bespoke Kurta I drank caffeine last night at the soiree and was unable to sleep peacefully [...]