Robert L. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is a past president of the Society for American Archaeology, current editor of American Antiquity, author of The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers, and coauthor of two popular textbooks, Archaeology and Archaeology: Down to Earth. He has conducted archaeological research throughout the western United States for more than forty years.
“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.
In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a definitive, no-turning-back change for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls a fifth beginning, one that started about AD 1500. Some might call it “globalization,” but the author places it in its larger context: a five-thousand-year arms race, capitalism’s global reach, and the cultural effects of a worldwide communication network.
Kelly predicts that the emergent phenomena of this fifth beginning will include the end of war as a viable way to resolve disputes, the end of capitalism as we know it, the widespread shift toward world citizenship, and the rise of forms of cooperation that will end the near-sacred status of nation-states. It’s the end of life as we have known it. However, the author is cautiously optimistic: he dwells not on the coming chaos, but on humanity’s great potential.
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這翻譯狗屁不通!!!英語中最重要的語言邏輯被這位教授完全拋棄,讀起來毫無章法,是我近幾年看過最差的譯文! 曆史並不是完全的科學,不能符號化公式化,物理學化學等找位相關領域教授翻譯毫無問題,文史哲方麵的書籍沒有一點翻譯常識隨意下筆,實在是對讀者的不負責任!這位教授...
圖書標籤: 考古 考古學 美國 歷史 考古學 土摩托鑒書 曆史 en
天呐英文版封麵設計竟然這麼好看
評分輕鬆流暢,不故作深沉,討論問題時有些大而化之的片兒湯感
評分有趣的是 所有Homo Sapien一開始都是血腥荒蠻 弱肉強食的Hunter-gatherer 然而作者強調human nature卻並不是這樣暴力混亂的 anyway 總結這本書就是“climate change”leads to everything (agriculture>technology, population growth>culture and state)
評分學術紮實,可讀性極強,寫作風格有彆於一般的考古學術著作。看一位考古學傢談未來很有意思,有所啓發。二刷打卡!
評分學術紮實,可讀性極強,寫作風格有彆於一般的考古學術著作。看一位考古學傢談未來很有意思,有所啓發。二刷打卡!
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