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Wade Davis
Photo Credit: Ryan Hill
The Wayfinders
**SOLD OUT **
7:30 p.m. Friday October 30, 2009
Doors open at 7pm General Admission no reserved seating
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood Road South
Click here for directions to the Innovation Park
In The Wayfinders, acclaimed anthropologist Wade Davis offers a gripping account of an urgent crisis that is facing our planet.
Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the extinction of our planet’s diverse flora and fauna. But how often do we hear that human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking rate? It is estimated that 18% of mammals, 11% of birds, and 8% of flora are threatened.
Meanwhile, of the 7,000 languages in the world today, 50% will disappear in our lifetime. Languages are merely the canaries in the coalmine: what of the stories, songs, knowledge, and ways of seeing that exist in these disappearing voices? . He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures while reminding us of the encroaching dangers posed by unchecked globalization. Something of an antidote to “World is Flat”-thinking, The Wayfinders is an enlightening and cautionary look at vanishing cultures and languages from one of the world’s most celebrated and distinguished anthropologists.
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Wade Davis is an award-winning ethnographer, anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University.
Davis is the bestselling author of several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow (which was made into a feature film), Light at the Edge of the World, and The Clouded Leopard. His book One River was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and his writing and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Newsweek, National Geographic, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Davis divides his time between northern British Columbia and Washington, D.C., where he is the National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence.
Copies of The Wayfinders will be available for purchase during the lecture and Wade Davis will be pleased to sign your copy after his talk.
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