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lessons from Ladakh for a globalizing world

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An edition of Ancient futures (2009)

Ancient futures

lessons from Ladakh for a globalizing world

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Publisher
Sierra Club Books
Language
English
Pages
226

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Table of Contents

Prologue: Learning from Ladakh
Part 1. Tradition. "Little Tibet" ; Living with the land ; Doctors and Shamans ; We have to live together ; An unchoreographed dance ; Buddhism: a way of life ; Joie de vivre
Part 2. Change. The coming of the West ; People from Mars ; Money makes the world go round ; From Lama to engineer ; Learning the Western way ; A pull to the center ; A people divided
Part 3. Looking ahead. Nothing is black, nothing is white ; The development hoax ; Counter-development ; The Ladakh project
Epilogue: Ancient futures
Afterword: An economics of happiness.

Edition Notes

"Updated with a new afterword by the author."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-218) and index.

Published in
San Francisco

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.1412
Library of Congress
HN690.L33 N68 2009, HN690.L33 N67 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 226 p. :
Number of pages
226

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25286565M
Internet Archive
ancientfuturesle0000norb_v2x4
ISBN 10
1578051622
ISBN 13
9781578051625
LCCN
2008943363
OCLC/WorldCat
251196522

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