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Acknowledgements
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ix
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List of illustrations
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xi
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List of recordings
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xxix
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Notes on contributors
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xxxi
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Introduction
Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin
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xxxvii
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Preserving the past: creating the Endangered Archives Programme
Barry Supple
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xxxix
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The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years
Anthea Case
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xliii
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What the Endangered Archives Programme does
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xlvii
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Crumb trails, threads and traces: Endangered Archives and history
Maja Kominko
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xlix
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PART I. INSCRIPTIONS
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1
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The “written landscape” of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains
Stefano Biagetti, Ali Ait Kaci and Savino di Lernia
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1
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PART II. MANUSCRIPTS
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2
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Metadata and endangered archives: lessons from the Ahom manuscripts project
Stephen Morey
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31
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3
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Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts
Heleen Plaisier
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67
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4
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Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia
Michael Gervers and Jacek Tomaszewski
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89
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5
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Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya
Anne Bang
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135
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6
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In the shadow of Timbuktu: the manuscripts of Djenné
Sophie Sarin
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173
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PART III. DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVES
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7
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The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers
Elena Mariushakova and Veselin Popov
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189
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8
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Sacred boundaries: parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes
Gabriela Ramos
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225
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9
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Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives
Jane Landers, Pablo Gómez, José Polo Acuña and Courtney J. Campbell
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259
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10
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Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary study
Mohammed Bashir Salau
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293
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11
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Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: the myth and the reality
Fallou Ngom
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331
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12
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Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre
Qasem Abu Harb
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377
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PART IV. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
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13
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A charlatan’s album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880)
Irina Podgorny
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417
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14
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Hearing images, tasting pictures: making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills District, Northeast India (1870-1920)
Kyle Jackson
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445
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15
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The photographs of Baluev: capturing the “socialist transformation” of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939
David Anderson, Mikhail S. Batashev and Craig Campbell
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487
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16
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Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio
David Zeitlyn
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531
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PART V. SOUND ARCHIVES
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17
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Music for a revolution: the sound archives of Radio
Télévision Guinée
Graeme Counsel
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547
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18
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Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music
Jane Lewisohn
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587
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19
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The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia
Tjeerd De Graaf and Victor Denisov
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617
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Index
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