The World Until Yesterday Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Jared Diamond
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
311

The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond Book Summary

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.

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Book Name The World Until Yesterday
Genre Anthropology
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 11.02 MB

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The World Until Yesterday. A tedious and pedantic work that falls seriously beneath Diamond's earlier work especially Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Boring. Super dry and boring. Feels like reading a textbook for a class I wish I could drop.

Good read. I'll start by saying that if you want to read a story about adventure and mystery, you will be disappointed. This book is all about the facts, comparing modern western society and modern traditional (tribal) societies. I find this comparison intriguing and I enjoyed the book a lot. I also enjoy non fiction books about sociology a lot so that's a bias for me. This book is a wealth of information for the subject at hand. I recommend it. I gave it only 4 stars because it does get a little redundant sometimes, if I wasn't such a fast reader it would bug me a lot at points.

Zzzzzz. i use it as a sleep medicine, one page and I am away.

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Summary of The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond

The The World Until Yesterday book written by Jared Diamond was published on 31 December 2012, Monday in the Anthropology category. A total of 311 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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