"His research on Voudou in Haiti led to the book "The Serpent and the Rainbow" being published and opened several controversies. One was his claim that Voudou Priests could sustain a person in a pharmacological trance for years. Another was his heterdox behaviour in having a recently buried child exhumed.
According to his TED biography, you should listen to him because;
Anthropologist Wade Davis is perhaps the most articulate and influential western advocate for the world's indigenous cultures. His stunning photographs and evocative stories capture the viewer's imagination. As a speaker, he parlays that sense of wonder into passionate concern over the rate at which cultures and languages are disappearing -- 50 percent of the world's 6,000 languages, he says, are no longer taught to children. He argues, in the most beautiful terms, that language isn't just a collection of vocabulary and grammatical rules. In fact, "Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind."
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