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Millennium : tribal wisdom and the modern world / David Maybury-Lewis.
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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :: Viking,
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1992.
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xvi, 397 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-391) and index.
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Monograph
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0670829358 9780670829354 0670846066 9780670846061;
Abstract:
The shock of the other -- An ecology of mind -- A poor man shames us all -- Strange relations -- Mistaken identity -- The art of living -- Inventing reality -- Touching the timeless -- At the threshold -- Photographic essays. Dogon ; Xavante ; Aborigines
; Makuna ; Gabra ; Wodaabe ; Weyewa ; Nyinba ; Huichol ; Navajo.

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.
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