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The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

Hardcover • 2012 • English • 1. edition

The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

By Jared M. Diamond

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About the book

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 wa...Show more

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ISBN

9780670024810

Publisher

Viking

Published year

2012

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

Format

Hardcover

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