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The Wayfinders, 2009 Massey Lecture: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (Book)
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Recently, many of us have been alarmed to learn of accelerating rates of extinction among plants and animals on our planet. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18% of mammals and 11% of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8% of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50% of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coalmine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these disappearing voices?
In The Wayfinders, acclaimed anthropologist 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 disappear.
- 240 pages, paperback.
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