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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (2009)di Wade Davis
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Very eye-opening book on the wisdom of other cultures and our western hubris in ignoring them. Mostly absorbing, but he goes on a little too long in some spots. Very worthwhile. ( ) Very convincing argument for elevating the pre-modern cultures. The first half or so dealing Polynesians gives light to what remarkable skills they developed, and how Orientalist treated what they couldn't understand. It doesn't shy away from what we may find troubling in some practices in ancient traditions, and why we may want to not always jump to "fixing" it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiCBC Massey Lectures (2009)
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, 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 descendants of a true lost civilization, the Peoples of the Anaconda. In the Andes we discover that the earth really is alive, while in Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal, where we encounter a wisdom hero, a Bodhisattva, who emerges from forty-five years of Buddhist retreat and solitude. And finally we settle in Borneo, where the last rain forest nomads struggle to survive. Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century. For at risk is the human legacy-a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalog of the imagination. Rediscovering a new appreciation for the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed by culture, is among the central challenges of our time. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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