The Wayfinders Why Ancient Wisdom Matters In The Modern World

Of the 7,000 languages in the world today, 50% will disappear in our lifetime. But languages are merely the canaries in the coalmine: what of the stories, songs, knowledge and ways of seeing that exist in these disappearing voices? Anthropologist and ethnographer Davis provides a platform for a handful of indigenous cultures that are not so much exotic as they are revealing of something universal about the nature of the human imagination. The five chapters comprised the 2009 CBC Massey Lectures. With an annotated bibliography.

Softcover, 5x8, 262pp., 2009.