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The World Until Yesterday

The World Until Yesterday

作者:Jared Diamond

分类:文学

ISBN:9780670024810

出版时间:2012-12-31

出版社:Viking Adult

标签: 社会学  历史  人类学  JaredDiamond  自然科学  贾雷德·戴蒙德  英文  历史学 

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【誠品選書推薦】 以《槍砲,細菌與鋼鐵》與《大崩壞》而廣為世界認識的重要作家Jared Diamond最新著作。這一次,作者詢問的是『我們能從傳統社會中學到什麼?』進步,難道不是有如時間線性不斷向前展開的過程?新幾內亞在80年前還是一個完全封閉、仍在使用石器工具的的原始世界,西方社會首次造訪後短短數十年急速經歷了人類兩千年的各樣發展,作者從2006年新幾內亞機場作為書的開場(過去),以美國洛杉磯機場作為本書尾聲(現在),帶領讀者走過一趟現代文明建立的宏大旅程。 以《槍砲,細菌與鋼鐵》與《大崩壞》而廣為世界認識的重要作家Jared Diamond,帶來一本最能展現其個人風格的佳作。 根據他幾十年的田野調查經驗,與豐富的資料搜集,Diamond 向所有人提出一個問題:『我們能從傳統社會中學到什麼?』進步,難道不是有如時間線性不斷向前展開的過程?新幾內亞在80年前還是一個完全封閉、仍在使用石器工具的原始世界,但這些原始社會用來解決人類普遍性問題的解答,諸如扶養小孩、照顧老人、解決爭議,都讓自豪於文明進展的現代人驚訝不已。 西方社會首次造訪後短短數十年急速經歷了人類兩千年的各樣發展,作者從2006年新幾內亞機場作為書的開場(過去),以美國洛杉磯機場作為本書尾聲(現在),帶領讀者走過一趟現代文明建立的宏大旅程。在作者眼中,現代社會依然是淺薄與混亂的,重新向傳統社會取經,反思社會實踐的真諦,現代人得稍微放下尊嚴,回頭看看。 或許此書不像Diamond過去的作品那麼宏大,探究人類歷史關鍵性的結構改變。但知名作家站在觀察過去的立場,替未來發展帶進新的視角,是一本引人入勝、知識與娛樂性兼具的好書。

内容简介

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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