26.8.09

Cultures at the Edge of the World

In this TED Talk anthropologist Wade Davis suggests that vanishing cultures are a loss of variety of possible ways of being, thinking and orienting ourselves to the planet and each other. He calls the overall cultural, imaginal and linguistic actualities of our species the 'ethnosphere', and makes a passionate and informative plea for an increased sensitivity to the loss of cultural and linguistic diversity.
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