The World Until Yesterday
Autor Jared Diamonden Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2013
Nivel de studiu: licență și referință profesională. În această lucrare de o anvergură panoramică, Jared Diamond își extinde cercetările de la macro-istoria civilizațiilor către o analiză antropologică detaliată a vieții cotidiene. Apreciem modul în care autorul utilizează experiența sa de decenii din Papua Noua Guinee pentru a demonstra că societățile tradiționale nu sunt simple curiozități istorice, ci modele funcționale care pot oferi soluții pentru problemele lumii contemporane. Găsim în acest text o examinare riguroasă a modului în care triburile abordează conflictele, educația și sănătatea, oferind o perspectivă critică asupra „bolilor civilizației” moderne.
The World Until Yesterday reprezintă o alternativă la The Dawn of Everything pentru cursurile de antropologie și istorie socială, având avantajul unei abordări bazate pe observație directă și pe date biologice concrete, mai degrabă decât pe o deconstrucție pur teoretică a miturilor politice. Dacă în Guns, Germs and Steel Diamond a explicat factorii geografici care au dus la dominația anumitor societăți, iar în Collapse a analizat motivele declinului acestora, în volumul de față el se concentrează pe mecanismele interne de funcționare ale comunităților mici. Merită menționat că stilul său rămâne fidel abordării pluridisciplinare — combinând biologia evoluționistă cu geografia și sociologia — o trăsătură pe care o regăsim și în lucrarea sa ulterioară, Upheaval. Structura narativă este echilibrată între relatarea de tip memorialistic și analiza științifică, oferind o imagine captivantă a naturii umane care a rămas neschimbată până „practic ieri”, în termeni evolutivi.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0141024488
Pagini: 512
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte studenților la sociologie și antropologie, dar și cititorilor pasionați de istorie culturală care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile comportamentului uman. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă inedită asupra avantajelor stilului de viață tradițional, de la beneficiile cognitive ale multilingvismului până la metode eficiente de mediere a conflictelor, oferind argumente solide pentru o reevaluare a priorităților societății moderne.
Despre autor
Jared Diamond (n. 1937) este un polimat american, profesor de geografie la UCLA și autor distins cu Premiul Pulitzer pentru Guns, Germs, and Steel. Cu o formare inițială în biochimie și fiziologie, Diamond a devenit una dintre cele mai influente figuri în spațiul intelectual public, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a sintetiza date din domenii diverse precum ornitologia, ecologia și biologia evoluționistă. Lucrările sale, printre care se numără și The Third Chimpanzee sau Upheaval, explorează marile întrebări ale istoriei umane prin prisma factorilor de mediu și biologici.
Descriere scurtă
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The World Until Yesterday, Diamond reveals how traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window onto how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature.
Drawing extensively on his decades working in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, Diamond explores how tribal societies approach essential human problems, from childrearing to conflict resolution to health, and discovers we have much to learn from traditional ways of life. He unearths remarkable findings - from the reason why modern afflictions like diabetes, obesity and Alzheimer's are virtually non-existent in tribal societies to the surprising benefits of multilingualism. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly original, The World Until Yesterday provides an enthralling first-hand picture of the human past that also suggests profound lessons for how to live well today.
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.
Recenzii
—Book Page
“Challenging and smart…By focusing his infectious intellect and incredible experience on nine broad areas -- peace and war, young and old, danger and response, religion, language and health -- and sifting through thousands of years of customs across 39 traditional societies, Diamond shows us many features of the past that we would be wise to adopt.”
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
“The World Until Yesterday [is] a fascinating and valuable look at what the rest of us have to learn from – and perhaps offer to – our more traditional kin.”
--Christian Science Monitor
“Ambitious and erudite, drawing on Diamond's seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of fields such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, physiology, nutrition and evolutionary biology. Diamond is a Renaissance man, a serious scholar and an audacious generalist, with a gift for synthesizing data and theories.”
--The Chicago Tribune
“As always, Diamond manages to combine a daring breadth of scope, rigorous technical detail and personal anecdotes that are often quite moving.”
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Diamond’s investigation of a selection of traditional societies, and within them a selection of how they contend with various issues[…]is leisurely but not complacent, informed but not claiming omniscience[…]A symphonic yet unromantic portrait of traditional societies and the often stirring lessons they offer.”--Kirkus, Starred Review
“In this fascinating book, Diamond brings fresh perspective to historic and contemporary ways of life with an eye toward those that are likely to enhance our future.”—Booklist
“Lyrical and harrowing, this survey of traditional societies reveals the surprising truth that modern life is a mere snippet in the long narrative of human endeavor[…]This book provides a lifetime of distilled experience but offers no simple lessons.”—Publishers Weekly
“Jared Diamond has done it again. Surveying a great range of anthropological literature and integrating it with vivid accounts of a lifetime of visits—sometimes harrowing, more often exhilarating—to highland New Guinea, he holds up a needed mirror to our culture and civilization. The reflection is not always flattering, but it is always worth looking at with an honest, intelligent eye. Diamond does that and more.”
--Melvin Konner, author of The Tangled Wing: and The Evolution of Childhood
“This is the most personal of Diamond's books, a natural follow-up to his brilliant Guns, Germs, and Steel. Diamond has very extensive and long-term field experience with New Guineans, and stories of these admirable people enrich his overview of how all human beings acted until very recently. Not only are his accounts fascinating, they will ring true to all who have experience with hunter-gatherer cultures. And they carry many lessons for modern societies as well on everything from child-rearing to general health. The World Until Yesterday is a triumph.”
--Paul R. Ehrlich, author of Human Natures
“The World Until Yesterday is another eye-opening and completely enchanting book by one of our major intellectual forces, as a writer, a thinker, a scientist, a human being. It's a rare treasure, both as an illuminating personal memoir and an engrossing look into the heart of traditional societies and the timely lessons they can offer us. Its unique spell is irresistible.”
--Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife
“An incredible insightful journey into the knowledge and experiences of peoples in traditional societies. Diamond’s literary adventure reflects on the problems of today in light of his exhaustive literature review and 40 plus years of living with rural New Guinean peoples.”
--Barry Hewlett, author of Intimate Fathers (with Michael Lamb)
“In the 19th century Charles Darwin's trilogy—On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals changed forever our understanding of our nature and our history. A century from now scholars will make a similar assessment of Jared Diamond's trilogy: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and now The World Until Yesterday, his magnificent concluding opus on not only our nature and our history, but our destiny as a species. Jared Diamond is the Charles Darwin of our generation, and The World Until Yesterday is an epoch-changing work that offers us hope through real-life solutions to our most pressing problems.”
--Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, author of The Believing Brain and Why Darwin Matters