The Bhutan Oral Literature Project:
A unique, community-based, intangible cultural heritage project dedicated to preserving the rich and diverse linguistic, ethnographic, and environmental wisdom embedded in the Bhutanese language and cultural traditions.
Our work ensures that the wisdom and traditions of the Bhutanese people are protected and kept alive in a rapidly modernizing world.
We enlist local people to preserve and keep vital the swiftly disappearing forms of indigenous knowledge in Bhutan.
Using a comprehensive methodology that draws on the expertise of linguistics, anthropology, literature, history, and environmental sciences, we train local people to become expert researchers in their own cultural heritage.
The Bhutan Oral Literature Project was founded by the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research in 2010.
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