圖書標籤: 社會學 曆史 人類學 JaredDiamond 自然科學 賈雷德·戴濛德 社科 英文
发表于2024-07-13
The World Until Yesterday pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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 yesterday—in evolutionary time—when 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 years—a past that has mostly vanished—and 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 societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but 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.
Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by The Rockefeller University. His previous books include Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and Guns, Germs, and Steel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
很好,特彆是第一手的部分
評分很好,特彆是第一手的部分
評分2016年讀的這本書,不如Guns, Germs and Steel印象深刻
評分但是,我覺得哪天還要再看一遍的。。
評分感覺third ape 是他的巔峰,這個依舊沒能超越,已科普
找了好久终于在新开图书馆找到~~ 本书的作者经历颇为有趣,该书主要讲述作者通过在原始传统社群的经历与现在西方文明的比较去发觉前者对后者的益处以及后者相对前者的不足。讨论涉及的方面基本囊括以及分析传统原始社群日常生活的各个方面:(主要)人际社群酋邦种族关系,教...
評分无论从哪个角度来看,贾雷德• 戴蒙德的名字是和《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》这本书紧密联系在一起的。这位加州大学洛杉矶分校的地理学教授以对人类文明演变发展的独到观察和颠覆性见解而声名远播,他的写作横跨历史学、人类学、语言学地理学、遗传学、生理学等众多领域,行文明晰流...
評分在传统时代,人们常常认为,在远古曾有一个伊甸园般的完美社会;而到了近现代,越来越多的人开始相信,真正的完美社会将在未来出现。当然,也曾有一些人认为,乌托邦在这个时代就有,但却是在远方的某个异邦或海岛上。总之,它不会是此时此地的社会——毕竟,在我们眼皮底下的...
評分无论从哪个角度来看,贾雷德• 戴蒙德的名字是和《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》这本书紧密联系在一起的。这位加州大学洛杉矶分校的地理学教授以对人类文明演变发展的独到观察和颠覆性见解而声名远播,他的写作横跨历史学、人类学、语言学地理学、遗传学、生理学等众多领域,行文明晰流...
評分大部分人对社会的认知是发展的,向前的,也就是说现在比过去好,我们努力做到进步。确实,在个人短暂的一生中看到的,意识到的大部分事物是一个方向的发展,一个维度的走。树木一年年长高,人的年龄一年比一年大,今年的欲望清单多了些物品,今天学到些东西又进步了。 我们学习...
The World Until Yesterday pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024