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Beneath the Surface of Things

Autor Wade Davis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2024
The anthropological lens, as Davis demonstrates, reveals what lies beneath the surface of things, allowing us to see, and to seek, the wisdom of the middle way, a perspective of promise and hope that all of the essays in this collection aspire to convey.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781778400445
ISBN-10: 1778400442
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 145 x 221 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Grey Stone Books

Notă biografică

Wade Davis is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and was Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013. His 23 books, published in 22 languages, include One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language. He lives on Bowen Island, B.C.



Cuprins

  1. This Is America
  2. Why Anthropology Matters
  3. The Promised Land
  4. The Unraveling of America
  5. War and Remembrance
  6. The Crowning of Everest
  7. The Art of Exploring
  8. Mother India
  9. A New Word for Indigenous
  10. The Divine Leaf of Immortality
  11. Beyond Climate Fear and Trepidation
  12. A Message to a Daughter
  13. On the Sacred