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Dr. Wade Davis and His Influences

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should be taken into account that the individual perspective of both the viewer and the creative person will be different. What defines these differences? One of the defining factors, one  could say, is the individuals innate belief system. It is one of the many measuring sticks with which a person evaluates the world and draws conclusions about that world. Such  is the instance of anthropologist Wade Davis. Wade Davis is considered one of the foremost experts on zombies and more specifically on the ethnobotony of the Haitian culture. His book  The Serpent and the Rainbow was a best seller and consequently was made into a movie. But what one must wonder about is the path that led to this culminating  experience that he writes about in The Serpent and the Rainbow. While attached to the Harvard Botanical Museum he made many trips to the Amazon valley and lived among  the different tribes that he encountered there. One can only speculate, but it is a calculated guess, that his collection of over six thousand varying types of plants from the  region and their uses, effects on the human body, would have led him to further study in this area. In 1988, he would travel to Haiti to study the folk  remedies and the botanical pharmaceuticals of the Haitian peoples. Dr. Daviss early experiences, pre-Harvard, may have also influenced his fascination with the pharmaceutical effects of plants. One of his earliest  jobs was that of a park ranger in his native country of Canada. During his time there, he also became a forestry engineer, was a logger, and helped to conduct  big game hunting in the country. It was during his time in Canada that the public first became aware of Dr. Davis work with indigenous peoples of Northern Canada. Out