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http://www.ted.com In this stunning talk,
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary
diversity of the world's indigenous cultures,
many of which are disappearing, as ancestral
land is lost and languages die. (50 percent
of the world's 6000 languages are no longer
taught to children.) Against a backdrop of
extraordinary photos and stories that ignite
the imagination, Davis argues that we should
be concerned not only for preserving the
biosphere, but also the "ethnosphere," which
he describes as "the sum total of all
thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas,
inspirations, intuitions brought into being
by the human imagination since the dawn of
consciousness." An anthropologist and
botanist by training, Davis has traveled the
world, living among indigenous cultures. He's
written several books, including The Serpent
and the Rainbow and Light at the Edge of the
World. (Recorded February 2003 in Monterey,
CA. Duration: 22:44)
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