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Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World is a 1992 documentary television series of ten one-hour episodes celebrating the lifeways and worldviews of small scale non-technological societies as the last of them face their inevitable accommodation with the 'modern world'.
Sep 24, 2017 · MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD is a 1992 documentary series by Harvard anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis. The series was designed to stimula...
Mar 14, 2020 · Looks toward the tribal societies that Western civilization has swept aside for insight into how their traditions may be able to prevent humans from destroying themselves in the next millennium. Companion volume to the PBS television series with the same title.
May 10, 1992 · Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World is a series by David Maybury-Lewis designed to inspire a new look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies.
Apr 29, 1992 · Harvard anthropologist Maybury-Lewis argues that the ancient wisdom, communal sharing and closeness to nature found in tribal societies hold survival lessons for our modern industrial society steeped in wastes and rootlessness.
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Jan 1, 1992 · He argues that tribal peoples have not tried (& failed) to be like us, but have actually chosen to live differently. By examining the roads they took that we did not, we can get a better insight into the choices we ourselves make, the price we pay for them, & the possibility of modifying them.
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World. David Maybury-Lewis. Viking, 1992 - Ethnology - 397 pages. This lavishly illustrated book--a companion volume to the 10-part PBS-TV series--takes...
