Anthropologist Lolan Sipan Preserves Traditional Life
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Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · People & Blogs
Modernity has a way of eclipsing, and sometimes even wiping out, tradition. There is a Kurdish anthropologist in northern Iraq who devotes his time and career to saving the traditions of Kurdistan's nomadic shepherds. In another in our series, Making a Difference, VOA's Suzanne Presto traveled to Mount Halgurd near the Iranian border to learn Lolan Sipan's story.
