The Fifth Beginning

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出版者:University of California Press
作者:Robert L. Kelly
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页数:168
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出版时间:2017-1-1
价格:USD 24.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780520293120
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  • 考古
  • 考古学
  • 美國
  • 歷史
  • 考古學
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  • 历史
  • en
  • 奇幻
  • 冒险
  • 成长
  • 重生
  • 末日
  • 探索
  • 友情
  • 奋斗
  • 希望
  • 觉醒
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具体描述

“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.

In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a definitive, no-turning-back change for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls a fifth beginning, one that started about AD 1500. Some might call it “globalization,” but the author places it in its larger context: a five-thousand-year arms race, capitalism’s global reach, and the cultural effects of a worldwide communication network.

Kelly predicts that the emergent phenomena of this fifth beginning will include the end of war as a viable way to resolve disputes, the end of capitalism as we know it, the widespread shift toward world citizenship, and the rise of forms of cooperation that will end the near-sacred status of nation-states. It’s the end of life as we have known it. However, the author is cautiously optimistic: he dwells not on the coming chaos, but on humanity’s great potential.

作者简介

Robert L. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is a past president of the Society for American Archaeology, current editor of American Antiquity, author of The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers, and coauthor of two popular textbooks, Archaeology and Archaeology: Down to Earth. He has conducted archaeological research throughout the western United States for more than forty years.

目录信息

Preface
Chapter 1-The End of the World as We Know it
Chapter 2-How Archarologists Think
Chapter 3-Sticks and Stones:The Begining of Technology
Chapter 4-Beads and Stories:The Beginning of Culture
Chapter 5-Bread and Beer:The beginning of Agriculture
Chapter 6-Kings and Chains:The Beginning of the State
Chapter 7-Nothing Lasts Forever:The Fifth Beginning
Notes
BIbliograhy
Index
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当时是在《人民日报》上看到这本《第五次开始:600万年的人类历史如何预示我们的未来》,从考古学的角度去看人类史,倒也是别具一格,于是还在预售期就第一时间在中信的旗舰店买下了。过了没多久,就收到了一版一印的考古学家的人类史作品。在作者看来,技术、文化、农业、国家...  

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(本文是杭侃老师为《第五次开始(审读本)》撰写的意见,首发于“纸上考古”公众号,欢迎关注) 1918 年 11 月 7 日,一位年近六旬的长者与他二十五岁的儿子有这样一次对话。 长者问儿子:“这个世界会好吗?”儿子回答道:“我相信世界是一天一天往好里去的。” “能好就好啊...  

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(本文是杭侃老师为《第五次开始(审读本)》撰写的意见,首发于“纸上考古”公众号,欢迎关注) 1918 年 11 月 7 日,一位年近六旬的长者与他二十五岁的儿子有这样一次对话。 长者问儿子:“这个世界会好吗?”儿子回答道:“我相信世界是一天一天往好里去的。” “能好就好啊...  

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有趣的是 所有Homo Sapien一开始都是血腥荒蛮 弱肉强食的Hunter-gatherer 然而作者强调human nature却并不是这样暴力混乱的 anyway 总结这本书就是“climate change”leads to everything (agriculture>technology, population growth>culture and state)

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天呐英文版封面设计竟然这么好看

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有趣的是 所有Homo Sapien一开始都是血腥荒蛮 弱肉强食的Hunter-gatherer 然而作者强调human nature却并不是这样暴力混乱的 anyway 总结这本书就是“climate change”leads to everything (agriculture>technology, population growth>culture and state)

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学术扎实,可读性极强,写作风格有别于一般的考古学术著作。看一位考古学家谈未来很有意思,有所启发。二刷打卡!

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天呐英文版封面设计竟然这么好看

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