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Vanishing Voices

Click To Watch	Of the world's 6500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century. Dr Mark Turin, director of the World...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: CambridgeUniversity   Length: 06:34 Rating: 4.807229 Views: 15226   Tags:

Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss the influence of glass

Click To Watch	Filmed as background to the Channel 4 series 'The Day the World Took Off', this discussion in a Japanese-style tea house is held between Alan...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: ayabaya   Length: 08:41 Rating: 5.0 Views: 67   Tags: Alan  Macfarlane  Mark  Turin  influence  and  history  of  glass  technology  civilization

Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss changing film technologies

Click To Watch	Filmed in Cambridge in 2010 by Xu Bei, Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss the changing film technologies they have used in their projects. All...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: ayabaya   Length: 03:17 Rating: N/A Views: 27   Tags: Changing  film  technologies  Mark  Turin  Alan  Macfarlane

Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss watermills in England

Click To Watch	A brief discussion near Lode watermill in Cambridgeshire in 1998 as a test for the series 'The Day the World Took Off' shown in the...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: ayabaya   Length: 02:47 Rating: 5.0 Views: 43   Tags: Alan  Macfarlane  Mark  Turin  watermill  Lode  grain  grinding

Collect, Protect, Connect: Documenting the Voices of Vanishing Worlds - Dr Mark Turin

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Dr Mark Turin discusses his own experience of preserving and revitalising the Thangmi language in Nepal. He discusses the problems encountered, both cultural and political,...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: GreshamCollege   Length: 45:42 Rating: 5.0 Views: 239   Tags: endangered languages  endangered language  rare language  rare languages  language preservation  language protection  Nepali  Nepalese Language  Nepali Language  Nepal  linguistics  language  Mark Turin  Dr Turin  Dr Mark Turin  culture  rare culture  endangered culture  lecture  talk  Thangmi  Thangmi language  Gresham College  Gresham College lecture  Gresham College talk  London lecture  London talk  university

Why should we protect endangered languages?

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Why should we protect endangered languages? Dr Mark Turin responds with the passionate reply that language is essentially connected to culture; that it is a...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: GreshamCollege   Length: 02:24 Rating: 4.428571 Views: 861   Tags: endangered languages  endangered language  rare language  rare languages  linguistics  language  language preservation  language protection  Mark Turin  Dr Turin  Dr Mark Turin  culture  rare culture  endangered culture  lecture  talk  Gresham College  Gresham College lecture  Gresham College talk  London lecture  London talk  university

Interview with Asen Balikci, Part 1 of 3

Click To Watch	Interview of Asen Balikci by Mark Turin. Filmed by Mark Turin in Sikkim, 12th January 2003. For a full, higher quality, downloadable version, please see...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: ayabaya   Length: 01:05 Rating: N/A Views: 32   Tags: anthropologist  anthropology  ethnography  film  sikkim  netsilik

Interview with Asen Balikci, Part 2 of 3

Click To Watch	Interview of Asen Balikci by Mark Turin. Filmed by Mark Turin in Sikkim, 12th January 2003. For a full, higher quality, downloadable version, please see...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: ayabaya   Length: 01:09 Rating: N/A Views: 13   Tags: anthropologist  anthropology  ethnography  film  sikkim

Interview with Asen Balikci, Part 3 of 3

Click To Watch	Interview of Asen Balikci by Mark Turin. Filmed by Mark Turin in Sikkim, 12th January 2003. For a full, higher quality, downloadable version, please see...   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: ayabaya   Length: 44:10 Rating: N/A Views: 28   Tags: anthropologist  anthropology  ethnography  film  sikkim

World Oral Literature Project

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Professor Turin is an anthropologist and a linguist. His scholarly focus is on the Himalayan region, in particular Nepal, northern India, Bhutan and cultural Tibet....   Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Author: YaleUniversity   Length: 13:42 Rating: N/A Views: 435   Tags: Marilyn Wilkes  The macmillan Report  Yale University  The macmillan Center  Mark Turin  World Oral Literature Project  Himalayan region  Nepal  northern India  Bhutan  Tibet  endangered languages