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Journeys to the Ethnosphere

"Indigenous cultures are not failed attempts at modernity, let alone failed attempts to be us. They are unique expressions of the human imagination and heart, unique answers to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? When asked this question, the peoples of the world respond in 7,000 different voices, and these collectively comprise our human repertoire for dealing with all the challenges that will confront us as a species over the coming centuries."

Fascinating insights from Wade Davis, described as "scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity," about his first-hand experience of several groups of indigenous tribes and their 'polychromatic world of diversity'.

http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_..._cultures.html