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<div>Members of the International Society for Ethnobiology have been doing interesting work, often dealing with sustainability and endangered language documentation (mostly by non-linguists but some linguists too). Here is their website: <a href="http://ethnobiology.net/">http://ethnobiology.net/</a>.
I am not sure if it possible, but if you can get a list of talks from their meeting this past June you could see who has been doing what based on the title of the work. </div>
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<div>Gwen</div>
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<div>On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:27 AM, Chelliah, Shobhana wrote:</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">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.</div>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">The editors of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Asian Highlands Perspectives</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are pleased to
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">AHP 31: The Lost World of Ladakh: Early Photographic Journeys through Indian Himalaya, 1931-1934</span></i></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">By Rupert Wilmot, Roger Bates, and Nicky Harman, with a Foreword by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">Khenpo
K. Rangdol, President of Tserkarmo Monastery, Ladakh, India.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">The Lost World of Ladakh</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a name="OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="OLE_LINK5"><span>Nicky Harman<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">The volume is available as an at-cost hard copy (28.29USD):</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><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></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">…and as a free download:</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; "><a href="http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/lost-world-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-indian-himalaya.pdf" target="_blank">http://plateauculture.org/sites/plateauculture.org/files/writing/lost-world-ladakh-early-photographic-journeys-indian-himalaya.pdf</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">…with an additional appendix:</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; "><a href="http://plateauculture.org/writing/appendix-lost-world-ladakh" target="_blank">http://plateauculture.org/writing/appendix-lost-world-ladakh</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">What other writers have said about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Lost World of Ladakh</i>:</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><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></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">William Dalrymple,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">author
of </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42</span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; "></span></i></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><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.”</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">Dr Janet Rizvi, writer and historian of Ladakh, Kashmir and the western Himalaya</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><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></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">Dr Philip Denwood, Emeritus Reader in Tibetan Studies, SOAS, University of London</span></i></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">Claude Rupert Trench Wilmot (1897-1961) was a British army officer stationed in India during the 1930s, and a talented
amateur photographer.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; "></span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; ">Nicky Harman translates Chinese literature, and was formerly a lecturer at Imperial College London.</span></div>
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