Wade Davis spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while cataloguing some 6,000 botanical specimens. His anthropological and ethnobotanical enquiries took him all over the globe, and his writing has tackled and unraveled mysteries of both this world and other realms.

In this talk, Wade shares his perspectives on the widespread impacts of the Psychedelic Renaissance and the emerging need for ancient plant medicine ceremonies and rituals on the contemporary world.

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About Wade Davis

Wade Davis is a cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow, about the folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies in Haiti.

He became even more internationally recognized, especially within the psychedelic community, through his 1996 book One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest, in which he portrays the expeditions into the Amazon undertaken by his mentor Richard E. Schultes in the 1940s and himself with his colleague Tim Plowman in the 1970s.

Davis spent more than three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6,000 botanical collections. He also conducted ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous societies of northern Canada, East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Vanuatu, Mongolia, and the high Arctic of Nunavut and Greenland.

Davis now serves as professor of anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He has published articles in Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Outside, National Geographic, Fortune, and Condé Nast Traveler; he is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and has produced 18 documentary films.

Aside from being an ethnographer, professor, public speaker, writer, photographer, and filmmaker extraordinaire, Davis is also a licensed river guide and has worked as park ranger and a forestry engineer.

Where to Find Wade Davis

https://daviswade.com/

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