The most prestigious and eagerly anticipated lecture series of the year, The CBC Massey Lectures are being delivered in 2009 by acclaimed author and anthropologist Wade Davis. Described as a "rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life's diversity," Davis is one of the most authoritative and well-respected cultural anthropologists in the field. In this fascinating work, he offers readers an engaging and insightful firsthand account of the environmental crises threatening indigenous cultures around the globe. An ardent defense of cultural preservation, the book celebrates the rich diversity of indigenous cultures and traditions while serving as a timely reminder of the dangers modernization and globalization pose to traditional ways of life. "The World Is Not Flat" is an enlightening look at vanishing cultures from one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists.
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It seems odd that we need to be reminded that there are many ways of knowing the world, and that all of them are valuable. I know a carpenter in Ontario who has built dozens of houses, and yet is illiterate; one of the most successful farmers in our area has never read a book except the Bible.
These are everyday examples. Wade Davis, in the 2009 Massey Lectures, now published in book form as The Wayfinders, goes further afield and presents many more striking cases of so-called primitive cultures that made mind-boggling contributions to the sum total of human knowledge, before being overrun by the juggernaut of progress.
When Davis, with a degree in anthropology and ethno-botany from Harvard, first travelled to the headwaters of the Amazon in 1975, a trip he described in One River, he saw what his education had trained him to see, “the familiar lament of anthropologists of the day,” he writes now. “Wherever we went, we encountered what we assumed to be disappearing worlds.”
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