For renowned anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, the term
" ethnosphere" encompasses the wealth of human diversity and all
that traditional cultures have to teach about different ways of
living and thinking.
In "Light at the Edge of the World, Davis--best known for "The
Serpent and the Rainbow--presents an intimate survey of the
ethnosphere in 80 striking photographs taken over the course of his
wide exploration. In eloquent accompanying text, Davis takes
readers deep into worlds few Westerners will ever experience,
worlds that are fading away even as he writes. From the Canadian
Arctic and the rain forests of Borneo to the Amazon and the
towering mountains of Tibet, readers are awakened to the rituals,
beliefs, and lives of the Waorani, the Penan, the Inuit, and many
other unique and endangered traditional cultures. The result is a
haunting and enlightening realization of the limitless potential of
the human imagination of life.
While globalization has become the battle cry of the 21st
century, Davis' s magisterial work points out that the erosion of
the ethnosphere will diminish us all. " The human imagination is
vast, fluid, infinite in its capacity for social and spiritual
invention, " he writes, and reminds us that " there are other means
of interpreting our existence, other ways of being."
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