The Challenge to the Ethnosphere as Opposed to the Biosphere
Saturday, July 12, 2008 at 08:37PM Canadian Anthropologist and Ethnobotanist Wade Davis begins this presentation by saying "culture is born of the imagination.." and through it he explores the genesis of creativity as we know it. Purpose is driven by belief systems and humanity has worked hard at trying to create belief systems that provide meaning. Harvard-educated Davis believes humanity's greatest legacy is the "ethnosphere," the cultural counterpart to the biosphere, and "the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness." He beautifully articulates the intellectual, emotional and moral reasons why it's in everyone's best interest to preserve the world's cultures.Davis's hypothesis is that belief systems are neither good nor bad, simply they are what they are. What he does so well in this presentation is show how what we might consider irrelevant and even obsolete cultures such as the Canadian Inuit who have learnt to survive and live with extreme environmental conditions, offer profound and important insights for humanity and the way we live and work going ahead.
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