The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Afbeeldingen
Sla de afbeeldingen overArtikel vergelijken
Uitgever: Penguin Putnam Inc
Auteur:
Jared M Diamond
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9780670024810
- 31 december 2012
- 512 pagina's
Samenvatting
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterdayin evolutionary timewhen everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of yearsa past that has mostly vanishedand considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societiesafter all, we are shocked by some of their practicesbut he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. A characteristically provocative, enlightening, and entertaining book, The World Until Yesterday will be essential and delightful reading.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of yearsa past that has mostly vanishedand considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societiesafter all, we are shocked by some of their practicesbut he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. A characteristically provocative, enlightening, and entertaining book, The World Until Yesterday will be essential and delightful reading.
Productspecificaties
Wij vonden geen specificaties voor jouw zoekopdracht '{SEARCH}'.
Inhoud
- Taal
- en
- Bindwijze
- Hardcover
- Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
- 31 december 2012
- Aantal pagina's
- 512
- Illustraties
- Met illustraties
Betrokkenen
- Hoofdauteur
- Jared M Diamond
- Hoofduitgeverij
- Penguin Putnam Inc
Overige kenmerken
- Editie
- 1
- Extra groot lettertype
- Nee
- Studieboek
- Ja
- Verpakking breedte
- 167 mm
- Verpakking hoogte
- 40 mm
- Verpakking lengte
- 242 mm
- Verpakkingsgewicht
- 853 g
EAN
- EAN
- 9780670024810
Je vindt dit artikel in
- Categorieën
- Taal
- Engels
- Studieboek of algemeen
- Studieboeken
- Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
- Boek
- Beschikbaarheid
- Leverbaar
Kies gewenste uitvoering
Bindwijze
: Hardcover
Prijsinformatie en bestellen
De prijs van dit product is 34 euro en 75 cent. Dit is een tweedehands product.Alleen tweedehands
Goed
Ref7277
Ref7277
1 - 2 weken
Verkoop door
BAY EXPRESS
- Bestellen en betalen via bol
- Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door BAY EXPRESS
- 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
Shop dit artikel
Anderen bekeken ook
Rapporteer dit artikel
Je wilt melding doen van illegale inhoud over dit artikel:
- Ik wil melding doen als klant
- Ik wil melding doen als autoriteit of trusted flagger
- Ik wil melding doen als partner
- Ik wil melding doen als merkhouder
Geen klant, autoriteit, trusted flagger, merkhouder of partner? Gebruik dan onderstaande link om melding te doen.