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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Bob Moseley. Timecode In: 00:20:42. Timecode out: 00:33:37. Notes: Discusses Tibetan culture and geology. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Tibetan village ambiance. Timecode In: 00:43:19. Timecode out: 00:57:58. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Unidentified Tibetan man chanting. Timecode In: 02:03:46. Timecode out: 02:07:18. Notes: Tibetan chant. Show: YGRP Log of DAT #: 13 Engineer: McQuay Date: October 20 - 21, 2000 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good 21:33 CJ - where were we? Another bone-breaking hike! 21:40 BM - we just hiked up to - right now we are at the summer village of the Ji La and we are having lunch and we are going to head up to the winter village up high on the ridge. But we are about 3,000 feet above the Mekong River it sits in the canyon almost straight down below us. And up to our other side to our right are the high snow peaks of MeLi. It is a bit cloudy, but Kawagabo, the highest peak in the range sits directly above us. 22:16 CJ - So, what are you trying to find out about by coming up here? BM - some more about to map the ecology, the landscape for biodiversity values (bad wind here) but also some of the cultural values are here with myself as a biologist and 2 anthropologists from Kunming Academy of Social Sciences. And we are going to spend a couple of nights up in the village getting to know the people - their land use patterns, their history, some of their scared sites for practicing Tibetan Buddhism. 22:56 22:57 CJ- What can you say when we look down on this display of mtns and trails and again the floral and fauna - well the flora anyway - I haven't seen much fauna - semm to change quite a bit as soon as we started climbing. 23:14 Yeah, this morning we stayed in the village of Sinong which is close to the river and is very arid, sub-tropical scrub, thorny vegetation climbing up out of the village, and we turn the corner up into this drainage and we got into some really nice kind of mixed forest with pines and deciduous broad leaf trees like maples and oaks. 23:39 23:40 CJ - I would think that with the Mekong right here that people would settle along the river. I mean this is one heck of a stiff hike up the side of a mtn. Why would a people decide that they would want to perch themselves this far up on a mtn? 23:54 BM - I would like to - hopefully we can get at that during the next couple of days. This is really marginal agricultural land. Extremely steep slopes, rocky - but they pull off 2 crops in each field. Wheat or barley in the winter, and then corn during the summer time. But that is a question we hope to answer. 24:19 CJ - and the rest of the time it is ah - yak butter - I can see that they have some goats, and you cansee they have a few sheep up here 24:29 - BM - and bigs of course. Yeah, I am not sure all of the live stocks, but I am sure they have some horses for packing as well as sort of the yak-cow hybrid which is the most common around here and sheep and goats and pigs, and chickens. CJ - sometimes when you come to a place like this you say you are the first western people they have seen. What kind of reception to you get? 24:53 BM - um, you get used to being stared at - its generally have an audience. People always want to see what you are doing - what you are pulling out of your pack. How you use chop-sticks. I have sort of gotten used to it over the last year. CJ- do you like it? Being the first one/ 25:22 BM- do I like it? (CJ - yeah) it's - it adds an exciting element to it - I have kind of gotten used to it - bc this country just opened up to foreigners less than 10 yrs ago in some areas. And so when you do come up to these remote areas with expeditions - I have been in with both zoology and biology expeditions up into the high valley - away from the m... (Notes truncated)
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