What "Lost" Cultures can Contribute to Management of Our Planet

Managing the Planet Series

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:00 AM EDT
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington DC

Wade Davis of the National Geographic Society and Susan Crate an Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University participate in a discussion led by GMU Professor and Dept. Chair Dr. Thomas Lovejoy. This discussion will explore the challenges to our planet's "ethnosphere" and implications of global loss of intimate place based knowledge systems, developed over millennia by peoples who have long inhabited, depended upon and stewarded specific ecosystems.
Susan Crate will discuss the Viliui Sakha, horse and cattle breeders in subarctic Siberia, who are on the front lines of climate change. Her investigations show how climate change is affecting not only this group’s subsistence survival but also their cultural and spiritual orientation to their land. Wade Davis will share his experiences with indigenous peoples of the Amazon and his work as a National Geographic Explorer, which seeks to highlight and conserve the diversity of languages and cultures worldwide. For more information please visit the Wilson Center website.

 

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