Phil Borges - People of Indigenous Cultures - Photography - World photographer of indigenous and tribal cultures

Phil Borges People of Indigenous Cultures - Photography Books Prints - Phil Borges has lived with and documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his work he strives to create a heightened understanding of the issues faced by people in the developing world. My photographic projects are devoted to the welfare of indigenous and tribal people. My intention is to help bring attention to the value these cultures represent and the challenges they face. We are living in an era of unprecedented cultural extinction. Indigenous and tribal cultures that have survived for hundreds sometimes thousands of years may soon be gone. A recent study made by the linguist Ken Hale of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimates that 3,000 of the 6,000 languages that exist in the world today are fated to die because they are no longer spoken by the children. The implications of this fact are startling. In one generation our cultural diversity will be halved. This diversity of knowledge, imagination, and belief that has helped to provide the creativity, resiliency and strength of our species is being dismantled. The fragile oral traditions that have held an encyclopedic body of knowledge about the natural world are being lost. Indigenous peoples have been threatened for centuries as economic interests and nation states have encroached on their lands. Although colonial and imperial pressures are still present, a more insidious problem lies with the children of these...

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