The World Until Yesterday 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 社會學 曆史 人類學 JaredDiamond 自然科學 賈雷德·戴濛德 社科 英文
發表於2024-12-25
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適閤非學術性讀者去看, 因為沒有很多深奧的專有名詞, 而且加瞭很多作者自己的故事。雖然有五百多頁, 但看起來沒有很吃力。
評分2016年讀的這本書,不如Guns, Germs and Steel印象深刻
評分巴布亞新幾內亞旅遊局官方推薦:)
評分好長的一本書,行文邏輯非常嚴謹,像極瞭GRE寫作的風格……在這個人類社會與科技發展的速度已經超過我們自身適應能力的時代,現代文明在諸多方麵都有可以繼續從遠古社會部族學習、藉鑒和吸收的地方。
評分like most of the book, especially the religion chapter
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.
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.
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,...
評分无论从哪个角度来看,贾雷德• 戴蒙德的名字是和《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》这本书紧密联系在一起的。这位加州大学洛杉矶分校的地理学教授以对人类文明演变发展的独到观察和颠覆性见解而声名远播,他的写作横跨历史学、人类学、语言学地理学、遗传学、生理学等众多领域,行文明晰流...
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