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
- Way of the Road (November 2009) Digital Himalaya hosts the trailer of a new film by Ben and Cosmo Campbell about a road which is being built to the Tibetan border to help relieve poverty in Nepal’s northern districts.
- 15th-century religious texts and wall paintings found in caves carved into sheer cliffs in Mustang, northern Nepal. Click here to read more.
- Bhutanese Royals view Himalayan collection (October 2009) A recent visit to the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) by the Prince and Princess of Bhutan has helped highlight the vital collaborative research value of the Museum’s Himalayan collections, click here to read the article.
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