The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies? af Jared M. Diamond (Bog)

Forfatter: Jared M. Diamond
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 512
Forlag: Penguin Books
Udgivelsesår: 2012
Reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms. The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms. Drawing on decades of his own fieldwork, Diamond explores how tribal people approach essential human problems, from health and diet to conflict resolution and language, and discovers they have much to teach us.Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, and Collapse, a #1 international bestseller. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others
Titel: The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?
Udgave: Penguin paperback edition

Sammendrag: Non-fiktion/antropologisk værk hvor Jared Diamond sammenligner moderne vestlige samfund med traditionelle stamme- og småskala-samfund. Med eksempler fra blandt andet New Guinea beskriver han, hvordan traditionelle samfund håndterer centrale menneskelige udfordringer som børneopdragelse, ældreomsorg, straf og tilgivelse, krig og fred, religion, sprogskifte, handel, sundhed og kost. Han diskuterer fordele og ulemper ved både traditionelle og moderne livsformer og spørger, hvilke konkrete praksisser nutidens samfund kan overtage – fx mere fællesskabsorienteret børnepasning, større respekt for ældre, andre måder at løse konflikter på og mere fysisk aktive hverdage. Bogen kombinerer populærvidenskab, historie, antropologi og evolutionsteori og fungerer som en tilgængelig introduktion til, hvordan menneskelige samfund har fungeret gennem størstedelen af vores historie, og hvad det betyder for vores fremtid.
Type: Paperback