A project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region
The Digital Himalaya project was designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, the project was established in December 2000. From 2002 to 2005, the project moved to the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University and began its collaboration with the University of Virginia. As of 2009, Digital Himalaya is back in Cambridge.
News
- Hidden Treasure of Bön (July 2010) Digital Himalaya hosts a film about an international team of climbers and other experts set out to salvage a cache of Tibetan manuscripts from a cave in the highlands of Nepal’s Mustang District. To help them with the task of identifying the texts, they invited Geshe Gelek Jinpa, a scholar-monk of the Tibetan Bön religion.
- Center for Constitutional Dialogue (CCD) (June 2010) Digital Himalaya hosts back issues of the Center's Constitution Building e-Bulletin, in English and Nepali.
- I Will Find You (June 2010) Digital Himalaya hosts a trailer of the forthcoming film I Will Find You set during Nepal’s ten-year civil war.
- Martin Chautari Policy Briefs (May 2010) We are happy to support MC by cohosting their series of bilingual Policy Briefs on issues relating to the constitutional process in Nepal.
- Gochali (May 2010) Digital Himalaya hosts back issues of Gochali, Tharu-language magazine which began publishing in Dang in 1974.
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