Mingyur: At what age did you start working as a mikten (matchmaker)? Singi Sherpa: During my father’s time there was no mikten in our village, and they had to find one, when they needed a bride for their son. Later, when the committees were formed, they requested...
Mingyur: Grandmother, you are eighty-five years old, right? Please, tell me about yourself. About your parents, where were you born, etc.? Ebi: My mother passed away at the age of sixty, my father used to be an unze (master of ritual in the temple). He continued to...
