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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.
- 社会学
- 历史
- 人类学
- JaredDiamond
- 自然科学
- 贾雷德·戴蒙德
- 社科
- 英文
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.
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读过《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》的人，对贾雷德•戴蒙德不会感到陌生，他是一位演化生物学家，写作横跨历史学、人类学、地理学等学科，试图为历史变迁建立一套演化论的解释范式。 本书延续了戴蒙德的野心，通过对原始“捕猎—采集文明”的观察与研究，作者理清了现代文明的来路，...
评分以前看《天真的人类学家》学到一个词“戏谑关系”，但过了很久才突然意识到，这并不是万里之外某个非洲部落里特有的现象。无论是中国还是西方，这种关系都很常见。我之所以没有在看书时立即意识到这一点，既是因为我之前从未听说过这个词，也是因为作者采用的是一种很有距离感...
评分 评分一本《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》足矣让戴蒙德不朽，作为地理决定论界的扛把子，戴蒙德把在新几内亚原始部落几十年的观察、交流和思考融入了一本又一本主题各异的著作，充分体现了一个智人所能达到的思维深度和广度，不愧为我们灵长类的骄傲。在这本书中戴蒙德谈的是传统社会的特点，...
评分《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》的作者普利策得主贾雷德·戴蒙德Jared D深入新几内亚的部落里探究传统社会的生活，从地盘的划分、战争和和平、对待老人和儿童的做法、危险与应变、宗教信仰语言和健康五个方面与现代社会进行对比，认为我们可以从简单的原始的传统社会可以学到以下几个方...
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评分Jared Diamond真是越来越能瞎扯了。这特么也能算是人类学作品？！
评分还是很啰嗦的老先生的长篇巨著，虽然详细并且内容丰富，虽然我同意传统社会有许多值得我们现代社会学习的东西，所以这本书应该还是有它的意义，但总的俩说没有什么新意。当年看枪炮细菌和钢铁的惊喜再也不会回来了。
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