A Foot in the River

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- Why does human culture vary so radically from place to place and change at such a bewildering pace? - Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers a radical answer to this fundamental question of human history and speculates on what it might mean for our future - Combines insights from a huge range of disciplines, including history, biology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, sociolog...(展開全部) - Why does human culture vary so radically from place to place and change at such a bewildering pace? - Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers a radical answer to this fundamental question of human history and speculates on what it might mean for our future - Combines insights from a huge range of disciplines, including history, biology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, sociology, ethology, zoology, primatology, psychology, linguistics, the cognitive sciences, and business studies - A revolutionary book that challenges scientistic assumptions about culture and proposes a new explanation of how and why cultural change happens We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live – our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values – seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating, baffling, sometimes terrifying. Why is this? In A Foot in the River, best-selling historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto sifts through the evidence and offers some radical answers to these very big questions about the human species and its history – and speculates on what these answers might mean for our future. Combining insights from a huge range of disciplines, including history, biology, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, sociology, ethology, zoology, primatology, psych

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