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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lectures) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The WayfindersEvery culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the des
Full description- Publisher: House of Anansi Press
- Published: 13 October 2009
- Format: Paperback 262 pages
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- Categories: Anthropology | Social & Cultural Anthropology
- ISBN 13: 9780887847660 ISBN 10: 0887847668
- Sales rank: 10,388
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Many of us are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coal mine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these voices?In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind's survival should they vanish.
