Well, that's one less Carolina flying squirrel, but having it for dinner might actually help keep them around. A list of endangered American species once common on the dinner table has become a
book, its author, Gary Paul Nabham, encouraging the reader to keep
disappearing local culinary traditions
alive.
Endangered Dinners.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth
on Apr 30, 2008 -
26 comments
Wade Davis , on
"Death and life in the Ethnosphere - The Naked Geography Of Hope" :
"In Haiti, a Vodoun priestess responds to the rhythm of drums and, taken by the spirit, handles burning embers with impunity. In the Amazon, a Waorani hunter detects the scent of animal urine at forty paces and identifies the species that deposited it....On an escarpment in the high Arctic, Inuit elders fuse myth with landscape, interpreting the past in the shadow of clouds cast upon ice.....Just to know that such cultures exist is to remember that the human imagination is vast, fluid, infinite in its capacity for social and spiritual invention." The death of the Ethnosphere was Margaret Meade's great concern up to her death, says Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis of
Serpent and the Rainbow fame and student of
Richard Evans Schultes, founder of
Ethnobotany : "The
surprising results obtained from treating psychoactive plants allowed their users to communicate more directly with the unseen world which they believed to exist." Davis coined the concept of the "Ethnosphere" and has worked for it's preservation through
Cultural Survival
posted by troutfishing
on Aug 5, 2004 -
16 comments
