The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?
Title
:
The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?
Personal Author EPSB
:
Jared M. Diamond
Summary
:
Surveying a great range of anthropological literature and integrating it with vivid accounts of a lifetime of visits-sometimes harrowing, more often exhilarating-to highlnad New Guinea, he holds up a needed mirror to our culture and civilization.
Year Published
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2012
Physical Description
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xi, 499 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Subject
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Dani (New Guinean people) -- History.
Dani (New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs.
Dani (New Guinean people) -- Cultural assimilation.
Social evolution -- Papua New Guinea.
Social change -- Papua New Guinea.
Geographic Term
:
Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
Summary
:
Surveying a great range of anthropological literature and integrating it with vivid accounts of a lifetime of visits-sometimes harrowing, more often exhilarating-to highlnad New Guinea, he holds up a needed mirror to our culture and civilization.
ISBN
:
9780670024810
Publisher
:
New York : Viking, c2012.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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| Edmonton Christian High | 305.89 DIA | Book | 30905000049100 | Non-Fiction |