Ancient Futures and the Ladakh Culture

antique Futures is a written narrative of the Ladakh culture. In this phonograph recording, the author analyzes and reveals how the high up quality of life that was enjoyed in a bleak and irrelevant country. The book also dialogue close to how the progress that was happening through with(predicate)out could be seen as both great and harmful. quaint Futures  raises questions roughly the whole sentiment of progress, and explores the base causes of industrial society. The book also suggests that it is possible to stretch forth to enjoy a elementary life without having to make changes to culture. iodin aspect of Ladakh culture that is talked about throughout the book, is family. Ladakh families spend either day unitedly through work, festivity, and spirituality. \nIn Ladakhi culture, families work unitedly day in and day out. I walked out onto the balcony. unit families - grandfathers, parents, children - were functional in the fields, slightly cutting, some stack ing, others winnowing  (22) . The unsophisticated cycle in Ladakh begins amidst February and June, and on an eastern characterization high above the village, a large pile of stones acts as an agricultural calendar. Together, these families work together in the fields cultivating plants with their modified resources. The average family holding is about five acres; from time to time a household baron leave as galore(postnominal) as ten. Optimum land area is determined by the coat of the family, roughly one acre per working member of the household  (11) . Ladakh families however have as untold land as they screwing handle by themselves. beyond the land that these families own, land isnt of often use to the Ladakh culture. With an altitude of 10,000 feet, Ladakhs dont have much of a cream on what they can plant. to the highest degree two- troikas of the fields are plant with barley, while the other third is wheat. Some of the families have tenuous fields of peas and gardens of turnips. The closeness amid the people and the land and the animals they depended on was deeply touching  (29) . Anima...