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Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World: A Conversation With Wade Davis

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The Polynesian Voyaging Society and the Hokulea

Polynesia was a wonderful example of this because we could demonstrate it in a living culture today through the journeys of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the Hokulea. This extraordinary vessel became the transporter of culture, the what Nainoa Thompson calls the rocket ship of the ancestors. You know that to this day the navigators can sense the presence of distance simply by watching reverberation of waves across the hull of the vessel. Every island group has its own unique refractive pattern that could be read in the same perspicacity with which the scientists would read a fingerprint.

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