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“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.
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.
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評分有趣的是 所有Homo Sapien一開始都是血腥荒蠻 弱肉強食的Hunter-gatherer 然而作者強調human nature卻並不是這樣暴力混亂的 anyway 總結這本書就是“climate change”leads to everything (agriculture>technology, population growth>culture and state)
評分有趣的是 所有Homo Sapien一開始都是血腥荒蠻 弱肉強食的Hunter-gatherer 然而作者強調human nature卻並不是這樣暴力混亂的 anyway 總結這本書就是“climate change”leads to everything (agriculture>technology, population growth>culture and state)
評分學術紮實,可讀性極強,寫作風格有彆於一般的考古學術著作。看一位考古學傢談未來很有意思,有所啓發。二刷打卡!
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The Fifth Beginning pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024