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Learning from ladakh by helena norberghodge and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Ladakh was the place i discovered my love for ethnographic study and found the inspiration to undertake a phd. Nothing is black, nothing is white the development hoax counterdevelopment the ladakh project epilogue. Ancient futures learning from ladakh, by helena norberghodge. Norberghodge, a linguist, worked with traditional communities in ladakh, a remote region in northern india, in the 1970s. This slim volume is her soapbox to air her views of how ladakh should be. The swiftly evolving socioeconomic life of ladakh, whose people struggle to balance growth and technology with cultural values, offers crucial lessons in. This region encapsulates 20,000 foot mountain peaks ladakh means land of mountain passes. Ladakh, or little tibet, is a wildly beautiful desert land high in the western himalayas. Lessons from ladakh for a globalizing world available in paperback. How many times have we read in our history books of societies or civilizations overreaching themselves to environmental disaster or extinction. Learning from ladakh by helena norberghodge is a book that explores the idea of progress, technological evolution, and the loss of community and culture that seems so essential to modernity.
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