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<p>Very interesting, Randy. I would like to hear more about this. I would like any help in highlighting the relationship between sustainability science and Documenting Endangered Langauges.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 28, 2014 4:31 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: New from Asian Highlands Perspectives - AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934<br>
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<div>Speaking of Ladakh, many years ago (1980's) at Berkeley I heard a woman give a talk on "The Ladakhi Project", which was an attempt to get the people in Ladakh to stop moving toward a petroleum-based economy, and to help them go back to a self-sustaining
economy with things such as solar stoves and whatnot. The project included writing a dictionary of the language. Does anyone know what happened to that project?
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<div>On 28 Jul, 2014, at 2:55 pm, Gerald Roche <<a href="mailto:gjroche@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">gjroche@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div>
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<i>Asian Highlands Perspectives</i> are pleased to announce the publication of:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">By Rupert Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by
</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Khenpo K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.</span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The Lost World of Ladakh</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> is a superb collection of 150 black-and-white photographs of 1930s
Ladakh, capturing its final days as a hub of trade routes between Tibet and Kashmir, India and Yarkand. These portraits of people, landscapes and Buddhist ceremonies taken by amateur photographer Rupert Wilmot, are notable for their careful composition, fine
detail and engaging informality. They have been meticulously researched and captioned by
<a name="OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="OLE_LINK5"><span>Nicky Harman </span></a><span>and Roger Bates, respectively, niece and nephew of Rupert Wilmot, and include maps, an introduction and a bibliography. Of considerable historical and ethnographic interest.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The volume is available as an at-cost hard copy (28.29USD):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/roger-bates-and-nicky-harman-and-rupert-wilmot/ahp-31-the-lost-world-of-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-in-indian-himalaya/paperback/product-21733172.html" target="_blank">http://www.lulu.com/shop/roger-bates-and-nicky-harman-and-rupert-wilmot/ahp-31-the-lost-world-of-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-in-indian-himalaya/paperback/product-21733172.html</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">…and as a free download:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">…with an additional appendix:</span></p>
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<i>The Lost World of Ladakh</i>:</span></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“A wonderfully elegaic set of photographs recording a lost world: an almost mediaeval Ladakh untouched by modernity and still living at the hub of the old
trans-Himalayan trade routes, a timeless Central Asia where soot writing boards, itinerant monks, arcane astrologers, masked dancers and elaborate turquoise headdresses were </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">still
common. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">These skillfully restored photographs make me ache to cross again the snowy heights of the Zoji-la and to re-visit this
most fascinating region to see what is left.”</span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">William Dalrymple,
</span></i><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-GB">author of </span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-GB">Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42</span><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span></i></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“Rupert Wilmot’s pictures are a delight. The monastery images include a spectacular set of the religious dance-drama at Hemis. There is also a visual record
of the trades that lifted so many of Ladakh's villagers above the poverty level: the bustle in Leh Bazaar, the interior of a serai, and caravans of sheep, donkeys and ponies. Perhaps the book’s most outstanding feature is the series of portraits of Wilmot’s
fellow-travellers and other Ladakhis, most of them in relaxed and cheerful mode, rather than posing stiffly.”
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“These illustrations, superb as photographs in their own right, capture in visual form the essence of Ladakhi life as it was in the 1930s. While the Ladakh
pictured here is in many ways gone, its legacy lives on in the distinctive culture of present-day Ladakh, which cannot be fully appreciated without a knowledge of its history. In this book we have a unique and vital contribution to that history.”</span></p>
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