TEAM6

Wipada Wanlopsiri, Tori Champion, Esther Nnanga, Nikolas Shymko, Arthur

Jenck , Nihal Grii , malik meliani

1. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS IN THIS VIDEO?

= Canaan, voodoo, warrior, caravansary
2. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ETHNOSPHERE?
= Sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions
brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.
3. DESCRIBE THE LANGUAGE SITUATION TODAY
=Many languages are in the fast pace of extinction  
4. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ECOLOGICAL BALANCE?
=the equilibrium between, and harmonious coexistence of, organisms
and     their environment.
5. DESCRIBE THE WADE DAVIS PERSPECTIVE ABOUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
=They have an authentic set of mind and a unique culture that has been
passed through generations after generations.
6. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LINGUISTIC EXOGAMY?
=a form of cultural exogamy in which marriage occurs only between speakers
of different languages.
7. DESCRIBE THE MEANING OF “DIFFERENT WAYS OF BEING”
Beyond the "only" traditions dicrepancies between two people, there are
different ways of seeing the world, what it's in our environment, the
ressources, the nature, the people... As an exemple he talks about the who
can't make the difference between blue and green colors, because
8. WADE DAVIS TALKS ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS: “THE MONOCHRONIC
WORLD OF MONOTHONY” AND “THE POLICHRONIC WORLD OF DIVERSITY”.
WHAT HE MEANS?
He makes a crossed parralel between a unique culture and the diversity, the
monothony (which means here poverty, even boreness) vs the exciting and
teeming different pespectives of diversity. As an exemple he critisized the
9. DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCES WITH:
a. WAORANI INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
They are indigenous people from Ecuador which got completely scared to the
view of a picture as it is in perspective. They killed each other everytime: only 2
people died because of their old age.
b. KOGI INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Indigenous people from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, north columbia. They
run away from conquest in a isolated place, next to a . The young priests see a
sunrise for the first time in nine years, and gaze upon the nature beauty. At
this moment they realize they have to protect it for the rest of their life.
c. PEOPLE FROM TIBET
They suffered from ethnocid (destruction of way of life): 6000 monuments
crushed to the ground and 1.2 M people killed. People in pain, but Wade Davis
emphasized the redempted spirit of the people.
10. WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET MEAD?
The decrease of cultural diversity will not only reduce the human imagination
to a more and more narrow thought/culture/way of living, but it will make sure
we have no other choice but to live the life society has planned for us. Just like
we may not find a solution alone, culture couldn't be unique: it has to be plural
to be worth something.
11. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS VIDEO?
Wade Davis shows its concern about cultural diversity through many examples
all around the world. His "storytelling" works as he shared his passion and it
got me interested in his concern.