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Nomads and the fate of the planet
After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures - in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas - and she herself calls three countries home. In this Quarterly Essay, she draws on her unique experience to delineate a vanishing way of life.In a time of environmental peril, Davidson argues that the nomadic way with nature offers valuable lessons. Cosmologies such as the Aboriginal Dreaming encode irreplaceable knowledge of the natural world, and nomadic cultures emphasise qualities of tolerance, adaptability and human int…
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- ISBN: 978-1-86395-286-6
- EAN: 9781863952866
- Produktnummer: 39268855
- Verlag: Quarterly Essay
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.0 cm x D0.5 cm 182 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 182
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