Deep History :The Architecture of Past and Present
Deep History :The Architecture of Past and Present
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Published:
31 August, 2012
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780520274624 |
| ISBN10 | 0520274628 |
| Number Of Pages | 360 |
| Item Weight | 454 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | University of California Press |
| Format | paperback |
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"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 brain, genes, exchange and other human faculties." -- Wendy Iraheta San Francisco Book Review "The chapters are perceptive ... in their arguments... Something that is long overdue." Journal Of Interdisciplinary History "Recommended." -- L. L. Johnson Choice "A volume of great significance, bringing fresh insight, focus, and shape to our understanding of the dynamic connectedness that spans the entirety of human history... The calibre of contributors is exceptional and Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail should be congratulated for assembling the line-up whilst also fostering the volume's collaborative character." Jrai "By envisioning nothing less than a complete account of the human experience, it stakes out a new frontier for historical consciousness that is as welcome as it is timely." American Historical Review "An impressive-at times dazzling-array of data, summaries of literature, and conceptual elements, clearly pooling the specialized knowledges of the various contributors... This is a rich tour of a vast terrain." Science & Society
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Author's Bio
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 Deep History and the Brain, (UC Press) a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology.