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- Summary
- Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 499 pages, [32] pages of plates
- Contents
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- PROLOGUE: AT THE AIRPORT: An airport scene
- Why study traditional societies?
- States
- Types of traditional societies
- Approaches, causes, and sources
- A small book about a big subject
- Plan of the book
- PT. I: SETTING THE STAGE BY DIVIDING SPACE. Chapter 1. FRIENDS, ENEMIES, STRANGERS, AND TRADERS: A boundary
- Mutually exclusive territories
- Non-exclusive land use
- Friends, enemies, and strangers
- First contacts
- Trade and traders
- Market economies
- Traditional forms of trade
- Traditional trade items
- Who trades what?
- Tiny nation
- PT. 2: PEACE AND WAR. Chapter 2. COMPENSATION FOR THE DEATH OF A CHILD: An accident
- A ceremony
- What if...?
- What the state did
- New Guinea compensation
- Life-long relationships
- Other non-state societies
- State authority
- State civil justice
- Defects in state civil justice
- State criminal justice
- Restorative justice
- Advantages and their price
- Chapter 3. A SHORT CHAPTER, ABOUT A TINY WAR: The Dani War
- The war's time-line
- The war's death toll
- Chapter 4. A LONGER CHAPTER, ABOUT MANY WARS: Definitions of war
- Forms of traditional warfare
- Mortality rates
- Similarities and differences
- Ending warfare
- Effects of European contact
- Warlike animals, peaceful peoples
- Motives for traditional war
- Ultimate reasons
- Whom do people fight?
- Forgetting Pearl Harbor
- PT. 3: YOUNG AND OLD. Chapter 4. BRINGING UP CHILDREN: Comparisons of child-rearing
- Childbirth
- Infanticide
- Weaning and birth interval
- On-demand nursing
- Infant-adult contact
- Fathers and allo-parents
- Responses to crying infants
- Physical punishment
- Child autonomy
- Multi-age playgroups
- Child play and education
- Their kids and our kids
- Chapter 6. THE TREATMENT OF OLD PEOPLE: CHERISH, ABANDON, OR KILL? : The elderly
- Expectations about eldercare
- Why abandon or kill?
- Usefulness of old people
- Society's values
- Society's rules
- Better or worse today?
- What to do with older people?
- PT. 4: DANGER AND RESPONSE. Chapter 7. CONSTRUCTIVE PARANOIA: Attitudes towards danger
- A night visit
- A boat accident
- Just a stick in the ground
- Taking risks
- Risks and talkativeness
- Chapter 8. LIONS AND OTHER DANGERS: Dangers of traditional life
- Accidents
- Vigilance
- Human violence
- Diseases
- Responses to diseases
- Starvation
- Unpredictable food shortages
- Scatter your land
- Seasonality and food storage
- Diet broadening
- Aggregation and dispersal
- Responses to danger
- PT. 5: RELIGION, LANGUAGE, AND HEALTH. Chapter 9. WHAT ELECTRIC EELS TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION: Questions about religion
- Definitions of religion
- Functions and electric eels
- The search for causal explanations
- Supernatural beliefs
- Religion's function of explanation
- Defusing anxiety
- Providing comfort
- Organization and obedience
- Codes of behavior towards strangers
- Justifying war
- Badges of commitment
- Measures of religious success
- Changes in religion's functions
- Chapter 10. SPEAKING IN MANY TONGUES: Multilingualism
- The world's language total
- How languages evolve
- Geography of language diversity
- Traditional multilingualism
- Benefits of bilingualism
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Vanishing languages
- How languages disappear
- Are minority languages harmful?
- Why preserve language?
- How can we protect languages?
- Chapter 11. SALT, SUGAR, FAT, AND SLOTH: Non-communicable diseases
- Our salt intake
- Salt and blood pressure
- Causes of hypertension
- Dietary sources of salt
- Diabetes
- Types of diabetes
- Genes, environment, and diabetes
- Pima Indians and Nauru Islanders
- Diabetes in India
- Benefits of genes for diabetes
- Why is diabetes low in Europeans?
- The future of non-communicable diseases
- EPILOGUE: AT ANOTHER AIRPORT: From the jungle to the 405
- Advantages of the modern world
- Advantages of the traditional world
- What can we learn?
- Isbn
- 9780670024810
- Label
- The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?
- Title
- The world until yesterday
- Title remainder
- what can we learn from traditional societies?
- Statement of responsibility
- Jared Diamond
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Diamond, Jared M
- Dewey number
- 305.89/912
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DU744.35.D32
- LC item number
- D53 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dani (New Guinean people)
- Dani (New Guinean people)
- Dani (New Guinean people)
- Social evolution
- Social change
- Papua New Guinea
- Label
- The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?, Jared Diamond
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-481) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Contents
- PROLOGUE: AT THE AIRPORT: An airport scene -- Why study traditional societies? -- States -- Types of traditional societies -- Approaches, causes, and sources -- A small book about a big subject -- Plan of the book -- PT. I: SETTING THE STAGE BY DIVIDING SPACE. Chapter 1. FRIENDS, ENEMIES, STRANGERS, AND TRADERS: A boundary -- Mutually exclusive territories -- Non-exclusive land use -- Friends, enemies, and strangers -- First contacts -- Trade and traders -- Market economies -- Traditional forms of trade -- Traditional trade items -- Who trades what? -- Tiny nation -- PT. 2: PEACE AND WAR. Chapter 2. COMPENSATION FOR THE DEATH OF A CHILD: An accident -- A ceremony -- What if...? -- What the state did -- New Guinea compensation -- Life-long relationships -- Other non-state societies -- State authority -- State civil justice -- Defects in state civil justice -- State criminal justice -- Restorative justice -- Advantages and their price -- Chapter 3. A SHORT CHAPTER, ABOUT A TINY WAR: The Dani War -- The war's time-line -- The war's death toll -- Chapter 4. A LONGER CHAPTER, ABOUT MANY WARS: Definitions of war -- Forms of traditional warfare -- Mortality rates -- Similarities and differences -- Ending warfare -- Effects of European contact -- Warlike animals, peaceful peoples -- Motives for traditional war -- Ultimate reasons -- Whom do people fight? -- Forgetting Pearl Harbor -- PT. 3: YOUNG AND OLD. Chapter 4. BRINGING UP CHILDREN: Comparisons of child-rearing -- Childbirth -- Infanticide -- Weaning and birth interval -- On-demand nursing -- Infant-adult contact -- Fathers and allo-parents -- Responses to crying infants -- Physical punishment -- Child autonomy -- Multi-age playgroups -- Child play and education -- Their kids and our kids -- Chapter 6. THE TREATMENT OF OLD PEOPLE: CHERISH, ABANDON, OR KILL? : The elderly -- Expectations about eldercare -- Why abandon or kill? -- Usefulness of old people -- Society's values -- Society's rules -- Better or worse today? -- What to do with older people? -- PT. 4: DANGER AND RESPONSE. Chapter 7. CONSTRUCTIVE PARANOIA: Attitudes towards danger -- A night visit -- A boat accident -- Just a stick in the ground -- Taking risks -- Risks and talkativeness -- Chapter 8. LIONS AND OTHER DANGERS: Dangers of traditional life -- Accidents -- Vigilance -- Human violence -- Diseases -- Responses to diseases -- Starvation -- Unpredictable food shortages -- Scatter your land -- Seasonality and food storage -- Diet broadening -- Aggregation and dispersal -- Responses to danger -- PT. 5: RELIGION, LANGUAGE, AND HEALTH. Chapter 9. WHAT ELECTRIC EELS TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION: Questions about religion -- Definitions of religion -- Functions and electric eels -- The search for causal explanations -- Supernatural beliefs -- Religion's function of explanation -- Defusing anxiety -- Providing comfort -- Organization and obedience -- Codes of behavior towards strangers -- Justifying war -- Badges of commitment -- Measures of religious success -- Changes in religion's functions -- Chapter 10. SPEAKING IN MANY TONGUES: Multilingualism -- The world's language total -- How languages evolve -- Geography of language diversity -- Traditional multilingualism -- Benefits of bilingualism -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Vanishing languages -- How languages disappear -- Are minority languages harmful? -- Why preserve language? -- How can we protect languages? -- Chapter 11. SALT, SUGAR, FAT, AND SLOTH: Non-communicable diseases -- Our salt intake -- Salt and blood pressure -- Causes of hypertension -- Dietary sources of salt -- Diabetes -- Types of diabetes -- Genes, environment, and diabetes -- Pima Indians and Nauru Islanders -- Diabetes in India -- Benefits of genes for diabetes -- Why is diabetes low in Europeans? -- The future of non-communicable diseases -- EPILOGUE: AT ANOTHER AIRPORT: From the jungle to the 405 -- Advantages of the modern world -- Advantages of the traditional world -- What can we learn?
- Control code
- 1384139
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 499 pages, [32] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670024810
- Lccn
- 2012018386
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1384139
- (OCoLC)793726658
- Label
- The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?, Jared Diamond
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-481) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- PROLOGUE: AT THE AIRPORT: An airport scene -- Why study traditional societies? -- States -- Types of traditional societies -- Approaches, causes, and sources -- A small book about a big subject -- Plan of the book -- PT. I: SETTING THE STAGE BY DIVIDING SPACE. Chapter 1. FRIENDS, ENEMIES, STRANGERS, AND TRADERS: A boundary -- Mutually exclusive territories -- Non-exclusive land use -- Friends, enemies, and strangers -- First contacts -- Trade and traders -- Market economies -- Traditional forms of trade -- Traditional trade items -- Who trades what? -- Tiny nation -- PT. 2: PEACE AND WAR. Chapter 2. COMPENSATION FOR THE DEATH OF A CHILD: An accident -- A ceremony -- What if...? -- What the state did -- New Guinea compensation -- Life-long relationships -- Other non-state societies -- State authority -- State civil justice -- Defects in state civil justice -- State criminal justice -- Restorative justice -- Advantages and their price -- Chapter 3. A SHORT CHAPTER, ABOUT A TINY WAR: The Dani War -- The war's time-line -- The war's death toll -- Chapter 4. A LONGER CHAPTER, ABOUT MANY WARS: Definitions of war -- Forms of traditional warfare -- Mortality rates -- Similarities and differences -- Ending warfare -- Effects of European contact -- Warlike animals, peaceful peoples -- Motives for traditional war -- Ultimate reasons -- Whom do people fight? -- Forgetting Pearl Harbor -- PT. 3: YOUNG AND OLD. Chapter 4. BRINGING UP CHILDREN: Comparisons of child-rearing -- Childbirth -- Infanticide -- Weaning and birth interval -- On-demand nursing -- Infant-adult contact -- Fathers and allo-parents -- Responses to crying infants -- Physical punishment -- Child autonomy -- Multi-age playgroups -- Child play and education -- Their kids and our kids -- Chapter 6. THE TREATMENT OF OLD PEOPLE: CHERISH, ABANDON, OR KILL? : The elderly -- Expectations about eldercare -- Why abandon or kill? -- Usefulness of old people -- Society's values -- Society's rules -- Better or worse today? -- What to do with older people? -- PT. 4: DANGER AND RESPONSE. Chapter 7. CONSTRUCTIVE PARANOIA: Attitudes towards danger -- A night visit -- A boat accident -- Just a stick in the ground -- Taking risks -- Risks and talkativeness -- Chapter 8. LIONS AND OTHER DANGERS: Dangers of traditional life -- Accidents -- Vigilance -- Human violence -- Diseases -- Responses to diseases -- Starvation -- Unpredictable food shortages -- Scatter your land -- Seasonality and food storage -- Diet broadening -- Aggregation and dispersal -- Responses to danger -- PT. 5: RELIGION, LANGUAGE, AND HEALTH. Chapter 9. WHAT ELECTRIC EELS TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION: Questions about religion -- Definitions of religion -- Functions and electric eels -- The search for causal explanations -- Supernatural beliefs -- Religion's function of explanation -- Defusing anxiety -- Providing comfort -- Organization and obedience -- Codes of behavior towards strangers -- Justifying war -- Badges of commitment -- Measures of religious success -- Changes in religion's functions -- Chapter 10. SPEAKING IN MANY TONGUES: Multilingualism -- The world's language total -- How languages evolve -- Geography of language diversity -- Traditional multilingualism -- Benefits of bilingualism -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Vanishing languages -- How languages disappear -- Are minority languages harmful? -- Why preserve language? -- How can we protect languages? -- Chapter 11. SALT, SUGAR, FAT, AND SLOTH: Non-communicable diseases -- Our salt intake -- Salt and blood pressure -- Causes of hypertension -- Dietary sources of salt -- Diabetes -- Types of diabetes -- Genes, environment, and diabetes -- Pima Indians and Nauru Islanders -- Diabetes in India -- Benefits of genes for diabetes -- Why is diabetes low in Europeans? -- The future of non-communicable diseases -- EPILOGUE: AT ANOTHER AIRPORT: From the jungle to the 405 -- Advantages of the modern world -- Advantages of the traditional world -- What can we learn?
- Control code
- 1384139
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 499 pages, [32] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670024810
- Lccn
- 2012018386
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1384139
- (OCoLC)793726658
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