W Eugene Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3996816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Eugene Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Democracies in the Ethnosphere
Anthropology meets democratic theory in this conversation that explores indigeneity, diversity, and the potentialities of democratic practices as exist in the non-Western world. Wade Davis draws readers into the ethnosphere-the sum total of human knowledge and experience-to highlight the extinction events that are wiping out some half of human ethnic diversity. Gagnon worries over what is lost to how we can understand and practice democracy in th…
A Flash of the Spirit
As a young student of anthropology at Harvard, I was fortunate to fall into the orbit of David Maybury-Lewis, who became my undergraduate tutor. A man of searing intelligence, whose formal eloquence masked a deeply humane spirit, Maybury-Lewis was one of the great Americanists, a brilliant scholar who had lived for years among the Akwe-Xavante and Xerente Indians in central Brazil. A student of Rodney Needham at Oxford, he had come to anthropolog…
Passage of Darkness
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Passage of Darkness
A Flash of the Spirit
As a young student of anthropology at Harvard, I was fortunate to fall into the orbit of David Maybury-Lewis, who became my undergraduate tutor. A man of searing intelligence, whose formal eloquence masked a deeply humane spirit, Maybury-Lewis was one of the great Americanists, a brilliant scholar who had lived for years among the Akwe-Xavante and Xerente Indians in central Brazil. A student of Rodney Needham at Oxford, he had come to anthropolog…
Democracies in the Ethnosphere
Anthropology meets democratic theory in this conversation that explores indigeneity, diversity, and the potentialities of democratic practices as exist in the non-Western world. Wade Davis draws readers into the ethnosphere-the sum total of human knowledge and experience-to highlight the extinction events that are wiping out some half of human ethnic diversity. Gagnon worries over what is lost to how we can understand and practice democracy in th…
Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1 work) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Botany (1 work) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 work)