Ancient Futures : Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World
ISBN: 9781578051625 | 1578051622
Format: Trade PaperPublisher: Sierra Club Books
Pub. Date: 5/12/2009
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A moving portrait of tradition and change in Ladakh, or "Little Tibet," Ancient Futures is also a scathing critique of the global economy and a rallying call for economic localization.
A gripping portrait of the western Himalayan land sometimes known as "Little Tibet," Ancient Futures opens with author Helena Norberg-Hodge's first visit in 1975 to idyllic, preindustrial Ladakh. She then tracks the profound changes that occurred as the region was opened to foreign tourists and Western goods and technologies, and off... MORE
A gripping portrait of the western Himalayan land sometimes known as "Little Tibet," Ancient Futures opens with author Helena Norberg-Hodge's first visit in 1975 to idyllic, preindustrial Ladakh. She then tracks the profound changes that occurred as the region was opened to foreign tourists and Western goods and technologies, and off... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. iv |
| Foreword | p. vi |
| Introduction | p. viii |
| Prologue: Learning from Ladakh | p. 1 |
| Tradition | |
| "Little Tibet" | p. 9 |
| Living with the Land | p. 19 |
| Doctors and Shamans | p. 37 |
| We Have to Live Together | p. 45 |
| An Unchoreographed Dance | p. 55 |
| Buddhism-A Way of Life | p. 72 |
Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture and a pioneer in the emerging localization movement. A co-founder of the International Forum on Globalization, she is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, or Alternative Nobel Prize. She was the first Westerner in modern times to master the Ladakhi language.
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