Author: University of Chicago. Committee for the Comparative Study of New NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Old Societies and New States
Author: University of Chicago. Committee for the Comparative Study of New NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Old Societies and New States; The Quest for Modernity in Asia and Africa. Edited by Clifford Geertz
Author: Chicago. University. Committee for the Comparative Study of New NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Old societies and new states
Author: Clifford GeertzOld Societies and New States. The Quest for Modernity in Asia and Africa. Ed. by C. Geertz
Author: Pluralism in "old Societies and New States"
Author: Amyn B. SajooPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9789813016866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This study examines the basis of pluralism within Islam, ASEAN's largest single socio-cultural milieu. It also assesses the professed and actual extent to which pluralism has been engaged in Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia. An overview of pluralist trends and prospects within ASEAN against prevailing transitions in East Asia is also presented.
Old Societies and New States. The Quest for Modernity in Asia and Africa. Edited by C. Geertz
Author: Clifford GeertzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Old societes and new states
Author: Clifford GeertzWorld History
Author: Eugene BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.
The World Until Yesterday
Author: Jared DiamondPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101606002
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
Author: Clifford GeertzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226756097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, nonreductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding. As part of the American Anthropological Association's centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues compiles the twelve speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a concluding piece by Geertz in which he responds to each speaker and reflects on his own career. These edited speeches cover a broad range of topics, including Geertz's views on morality, cultural critique, interpretivism, time and change, Islam, and violence. A fitting tribute to one of the great thinkers of our age, this collection will be enjoyed by anthropologists as well as students of psychology, history, and philosophy.