The UK-based Arcadia Fund is granting financial support worth approximately 2.5 million euros to media anthropologist Christiane Brosius and Indologist Axel Michaels of Heidelberg University. After a two-year pilot phase, it will be used over a six-year period to continue a project of documenting endangered historical monuments in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The specific aim of the project is to establish a database with digital records of monuments threatened by earthquakes and urban transformation and to make recommendations for preserving or reconstructing them. The new funding will allow extending activities to West Nepal and other places that are culturally and historically linked to the Kathmandu Valley. Under the leadership of Prof. Brosius and Prof. ...
Documenting Nepal’s Cultural Heritage
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