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The World Before Yesterday Author: Jared Diamond [USA] Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group Subtitle: What can we learn from traditional society?
The World Before Yesterday Author: Jared Diamond [USA] Publisher: CITIC Publishing Group Subtitle: What can we learn from traditional society?
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Introduction · · · · · ·
What does traditional society mean to modern society? Is it a barbarian land full of conflict and chaos, or a paradise where people enjoy a pastoral life? In any case, it is not far away from us, and it subtly influences the lifestyle of people in modern society. In fact, the practice of traditional society is older than that of modern countries. The former has conducted thousands of natural experiments on how to organize a human society. We who are easily lost in the fast-paced life of modern society might as well look back at the primitive lifestyle of our human ancestors and trace back to the good foundations that once helped humans improve themselves and build a civilized and orderly society. This is "the world before yesterday."
Diamond, who has long been in contact with the traditional society of New Guinea, analyzes the historical evolution and future trends of human society by observing and recording the living environment, living customs, and ways of doing things of people in traditional society. This book analyzes issues such as dividing regions, resolving disputes, raising children, treating the elderly, coping with crises, religious beliefs, language diversity, and healthy eating from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, physiology, nutrition, and evolutionary biology. These small aspects of traditional society also dominate the world today, so they are worth thinking about and learning from for those of us living in modern society.
In the book, Diamond once again demonstrates the breadth and depth of his knowledge, subverting our perspective on society and order, and guiding us to find the new pulse of modern civilization in traditional society.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Jared Diamond is a professor of physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, and one of the few contemporary thinkers who explores human society and civilization. Diamond's research has won him numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science, the American Geographical Society's Burr Prize, the Tyler Environmental Contribution Award, and the Japan International Environmental Harmony Award. His representative works include Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Third Chimpanzee, Collapse, The World Before Yesterday, Upheaval, and Why Some Countries Are Rich and Some Are Poor.
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