The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
In The World Until Yesterday, Jared Diamond considers what contemporary societies can learn from traditional societies. Drawing attention to differing ways of approaching community, health, conflict, aging, and everyday life, he encourages readers to view modern assumptions from a broader human perspective.
About This Book
Jared Diamond explores traditional societies and the lessons they may offer to the modern world.
The book considers differences between traditional and contemporary ways of organizing social life.
It invites readers to reflect on community, health, conflict, aging, and other enduring human concerns.
Accessible and wide-ranging, it connects observations about traditional societies with questions about how we live today.
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