ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ethnobotany
5 Dec 2013
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How to reference the film in the book review: cbc life & times. Every place he goes to, mentions, or just one place. > explores human societies, lived among endangered cultures. > 19 when he lived a middle class life. > cuzco, peru- very knowledgeable about the food, culture, and way of life, explorer. > ethnobotany, studied how native people use plants, those plants become a get way to culture, his work is based on friendships. > anthropology then botany in harvard, leading to phd in ethno botany. > best selling author, amazing lecturer , chairers, one of 8 explorers. > mapping, exploring diff aspects of our existence on this planet, different ways of viewing the world, different reality /perception. > the world in which we live in doesn"t exist in some absolute sense. > language is a vehicle towards the soul/culture. > of those 6,000 languages half are not being taught to school children.
