具體描述
“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.
著者簡介
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.
圖書目錄
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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讀後感
罗伯特·L.凯利曾任美国考古学会会长，美国怀俄明大学人类学系教授，学识素养深厚。近作《第五次开始》却无意于艰深研讨，而“有意保持短小、愉悦，有时甚至轻松”，并在表述史前史时有意将它与我们的当下和未来相提并论。 冰箱、电视、青霉素；真空管、电脑、云网络；人口爆炸...
評分 評分 評分 評分罗伯特·L.凯利曾任美国考古学会会长，美国怀俄明大学人类学系教授，学识素养深厚。近作《第五次开始》却无意于艰深研讨，而“有意保持短小、愉悦，有时甚至轻松”，并在表述史前史时有意将它与我们的当下和未来相提并论。 冰箱、电视、青霉素；真空管、电脑、云网络；人口爆炸...
用戶評價
輕鬆流暢，不故作深沉，討論問題時有些大而化之的片兒湯感
评分嗚嗚嗚等我修完專業學分要繼續上考古課
评分天呐英文版封麵設計竟然這麼好看
评分輕鬆流暢，不故作深沉，討論問題時有些大而化之的片兒湯感
评分有趣的是 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)
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