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Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present
Andrew Shryock
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Description for Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present
Hardback. Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. This book maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, and more. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 17 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the ... Read more
Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520270282
SKU
V9780520270282
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About Andrew Shryock
Andrew Shryock is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (UC Press) winner of the Middle Eastern Studies Association's Albert Hourani Award, among other books. Daniel Lord Smail is Professor of History at Harvard University. Among his books is On ... Read more
Reviews for Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present
"The goal of this project is to question old narrative elements of human evolution and discuss new ones... In practice, this means the book is about some of the cleverest people in the field having fun with ideas."
John Robb Current Anthropology "A different kind of historical writing ... it offers general readers a thought-provoking approach to language, the ... Read more
John Robb Current Anthropology "A different kind of historical writing ... it offers general readers a thought-provoking approach to language, the ... Read more