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Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World is a 1992 documentary television series of ten one-hour episodes celebrating the lifeways and worldviews of small scale non-technological societies as the last of them face their inevitable accommodation with the 'modern world'.
Sep 24, 2017 · MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD is a 1992 documentary series by Harvard anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis.
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World is a series by David Maybury-Lewis designed to inspire a new look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies.
Mar 14, 2020 · English. xvi, 397 pages : 29 cm. 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. Companion volume to the PBS television series with the same title.
The series interrogated universal human themes such as death, life, love, and spirituality in the lives of a wide range of indigenous peoples at the turn of the millennium, comparing lives and values in tribal societies to those of urban Canadians.
By exploring the values and different world perspectives that hold many tribal societies together, this ten part series aims to stimulate reflection and to look at what the modern world can learn from tribal societies as we all approach the next millennium.
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Oct 1, 1992 · Anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis is the host for this series which purports to contrast the wisdom of tribal societies with the apparent folly of technologically advanced societies. We watched the second episode, "Strange Relations," which begins with an interesting bit of scholarly legerdemain.
