Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- List of recordings -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Preserving the past: creating the Endangered Archives Programme -- The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years -- What the Endangered Archives Programme does -- Crumb trails, threads and traces: Endangered Archives and history -- 1. The "written landscape" of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains -- 2. Metadata and endangered archives: lessons from the Ahom Manuscripts Project -- 3. Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts -- 4. Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia -- 5. Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya -- 6. In the shadow of Timbuktu: the manuscripts of Djenné -- 7. The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers -- 8. Sacred boundaries: parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes -- 9. Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives -- 10. Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary study -- 11. Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: the myth and the reality -- 12. Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre -- 13. A charlatan's album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880) -- 14. Hearing images, tasting pictures: making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills district, Northeast India (1870-1920) -- 15. The photographs of Baluev: capturing the "socialist transformation" of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939 -- 16. Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio -- 17. Music for a revolution: the sound archives of Radio Télévision Guinée.

18. Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music -- 19. The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia -- Index.