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Peace Corps | World Wise Schools | Lesson Plans | Teacher Guides | Nepal
Nepal Activities for Grades 6 - 9. Pass
the Salt, Please. Materials: Worksheet: "Pass the Salt, Please"
Activities: Have students bring in a small item from home that they would
like to trade with a classmate. ... history and production of salt. Have
students use information from travel agents and tour books to plan a trek
in the Himalayas ...
www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/nepal/salt.html - 18k - Cached
1. Hunza Crystalsalt: natural Himalayan rock salt
Hunza crystalsalt: Australian distributors of natural Himalayan rock salt
for alternative health ... trade commodity. From earliest times salt has
played an essential role in sustaining good health and vitality. It is
only in recent history ... in the Hunza Region of the Himalayas ...
crystalsalt.netfirms.com/information.htm - 9k - Cached
Na Cl : White Goddess
Documentary Film
The documentary Sodium Chloride, will thread civilisation in time through
the microscopic point of view of a salt grain. Little do people know that
salt, an everyday substance and one of the simplest molecules in nature,
has played an indispensable role throughout the history of humanity, making
it a powerful and enduring mythic symbol.
Status: development
For more info contact nadav@wildfist.com 1. wildfist - Na Cl: White Goddess,
death by sacred fire
The documentary, Sodium
Chloride, takes the viewer on a visual journey through time and human
nature as reflected through a grain of salt. ... A History in Salt. 250
million years ago planet earth ... of meat curing, the evolution of money,
trade routes, wars, religious ... The route crossing the Himalayas from
Tibet to India ...
www.wildfist.com/films/nacl.html - 35k - Cached
Himalayan Traders: Life in Highland Nepal
by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf
An anthropological study of the effect of China's occupation of Tibet
on the lifestyle of Sherpa, Bhotia and Thakalis traders. The disruption
of traditional trade caused by competition from Indian salt is also examined.
"Readable follow-up [to the author's Sherpas of Nepal], concentrating
on the changes in trading patterns and culture's among Nepal's Himalayan
people." -- Hugh Finlay, Nepal (Lonely Planet)
Paperback. 316 pages. B&W illustrations. Index.
Times Books International, New Delhi, 1988.
AUTHOR Rai, Ratan Kumar
TITLE Along the Kali Gandaki: The Ancient-Salt Route in Western Nepal,
the Thakalis, Bond Kar and Lamaist Monasteries;
xviii, 144p., 26 Plts., 8 Col. Illus., 2 Maps, 29 cm.
YEAR PUBLISHED 1994
PLACE Delhi
Movie Documentary: The Salt Men
of Tibet.
Written and directed by Ulrike Koch. Germany, 1987. 110 minutes. Color.
In Tibetan with English subtitles. Website: http://www.zeitgeistfilm.com/current/saltmen/saltmen.html
Caravan or Himalaya, l'enfance d'un chef
Directed by Eric Valli, 1999. In Tibetan and German.
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