Categorii: Diverse
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2012
Editura: Viking Books
Tip copertă: Hardcover
Nr Pag: 512
ISBN: 9780670024810
Dimensiuni: l: 16.5cm | H: 25.4cm
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 yesterdayin evolutionary timewhen everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.