The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?

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In his most personal book to date, Diamond writes about his experiences over nearly five decades working and living in New Guinea, an island that is home to one thousand of the world's 7000 languages, and one of the most culturally diverse places on earth. Drawing on his own fieldwork, as well as evidence from Innuit, Amazonian Indians and other cultures, Diamond explores how tribal peoples approach essential human problems from childrearing to old age to conflict resolution to health, and discovered that we have much to learn from traditional ways of life... Panoramic in scope and brilliantly original, The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerising first-hand picture of the human past that also suggests profound lessons for how we can live today...