The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
athik says:
Voor mensen die weinig kennis hebben van antropologie en traditionele samenlevingen, vormt dit boek best een mooie inleiding. Echter, ik sta wat sceptisch tegenover de onderliggende boodschap die Jared Diamond met dit boek meegeeft. Een fundamentele discussie die na het lezen van dit boek kan ontstaan, is de volgende: hebben westerse samenlevingen het recht om gedwongen staatsgezag te introduceren in traditionele samenlevingen, om zodoende vrede te brengen door het onderwijzen van Ver...lichtingswaarden, en tribale gruwelijkheden te beëindigen. Jared Diamond lijkt me hier een voorstander van, en komt vaak erg kolonialistisch uit te hoek. Ook het idee dat traditionele samenlevingen te vergelijken zouden zijn met prehistorische mensen die leefden voor de landbouw opkwam, snijdt mijns inziens weinig hout. Het laatste hoofdstuk van het boek, over voeding, eetgewoonten en ziektes, vond ik persoonlijk interessant. Diamond durft westerlingen te confronteren met hun overvloedige gebruik van zout, suiker en alcohol. Voedingsgewoonten, waardoor wij met aandoeningen te maken krijgen die in traditionele samenlevingen niet aan de orde zijn.
dcendrier says:
Overall, I would consider this book more enjoyable and well-researched than Guns, Germs, and Steel. The greatest difference between Diamond's two most recent books as that this one is full of anecdotal examples that support more specific claims. GGS, while extremely valuable and interesting, is by nature comprised of more broad, sweeping generalizations about people groups throughout time and throughout the world. This book, is focused more on comparing traditional and modern societies, with tangible takeaways I can apply to my own life (such as diet, exercise, social lifestyle, etc.). I thoroughly loved the stories upon stories of New Guineans, which made impersonal truth statements much more personal.The only reason I rated this lower than GGS (although I enjoyed this more) is because of the section on religion, which presented religion merely as fulfilling functional roles of survival. While I believe religion is applied more often than not in a functional manner, and holds tangible benefits, Diamond's delivery felt (again, I am biased) as if one could not believe in God AND believe in the ways religion has been used in purely functional ways. Moreover, I felt as if the section completely ignored the fundamental aspects of what differentiates humanity from other types of life described in far-reaching galaxies, even though this concept IS addressed in the section on language and multilingualism.Overall, however, I do recommend this book and gained so many interesting understandings about cultural difference, what modern leaders can do to improve quality of life, and a dose of humility -- traditional societies are not less intelligent or capable than modern humans at all.MoreLess
Voor mensen die weinig kennis hebben van antropologie en traditionele samenlevingen, vormt dit boek best een mooie inleiding. Echter, ik sta wat sceptisch tegenover de onderliggende boodschap die Jared Diamond met dit boek meegeeft. Een fundamentele discussie die na het lezen van dit boek kan ontstaan, is de volgende: hebben westerse samenlevingen het recht om gedwongen staatsgezag te introduceren in traditionele samenlevingen, om zodoende vrede te brengen door het onderwijzen van Ver...lichtingswaarden, en tribale gruwelijkheden te beëindigen. Jared Diamond lijkt me hier een voorstander van, en komt vaak erg kolonialistisch uit te hoek. Ook het idee dat traditionele samenlevingen te vergelijken zouden zijn met prehistorische mensen die leefden voor de landbouw opkwam, snijdt mijns inziens weinig hout. Het laatste hoofdstuk van het boek, over voeding, eetgewoonten en ziektes, vond ik persoonlijk interessant. Diamond durft westerlingen te confronteren met hun overvloedige gebruik van zout, suiker en alcohol. Voedingsgewoonten, waardoor wij met aandoeningen te maken krijgen die in traditionele samenlevingen niet aan de orde zijn.
dcendrier says:
Overall, I would consider this book more enjoyable and well-researched than Guns, Germs, and Steel. The greatest difference between Diamond's two most recent books as that this one is full of anecdotal examples that support more specific claims. GGS, while extremely valuable and interesting, is by nature comprised of more broad, sweeping generalizations about people groups throughout time and throughout the world. This book, is focused more on comparing traditional and modern societies, with tangible takeaways I can apply to my own life (such as diet, exercise, social lifestyle, etc.). I thoroughly loved the stories upon stories of New Guineans, which made impersonal truth statements much more personal.The only reason I rated this lower than GGS (although I enjoyed this more) is because of the section on religion, which presented religion merely as fulfilling functional roles of survival. While I believe religion is applied more often than not in a functional manner, and holds tangible benefits, Diamond's delivery felt (again, I am biased) as if one could not believe in God AND believe in the ways religion has been used in purely functional ways. Moreover, I felt as if the section completely ignored the fundamental aspects of what differentiates humanity from other types of life described in far-reaching galaxies, even though this concept IS addressed in the section on language and multilingualism.Overall, however, I do recommend this book and gained so many interesting understandings about cultural difference, what modern leaders can do to improve quality of life, and a dose of humility -- traditional societies are not less intelligent or capable than modern humans at all.MoreLess
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