Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present

Andrew Shryock; Daniel Lord Smail

Published by University of California Press 2011

Deep History

The Architecture of Past and Present

Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520949669

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Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more. Combining cutting-edge social and evolutionary theory with the latest discoveries about human genes, brains, and material culture, Deep History invites scholars and general readers alike to explore the dynamic of connectedness that spans all of human history.

With Timothy Earle, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Clive Gamble, April McMahon, John C. Mitani, Hendrik Poinar, Mary C. Stiner, and Thomas R. Trautmann

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Shryock Andrew :

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	ii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A Note on Dates Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part One. Problems and Orientations
Chapter 1. Introduction Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2. Imagining the Human in Deep Time Andrew Shryock, Thomas R. Trautmann and Clive Gamble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Part Two. Frames for History in Deep Time
Chapter 3. Body Daniel Lord Smail and Andrew Shryock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 4. Energy and Ecosystems Mary C. Stiner and Gillian Feeley-Harnik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter 5. Language April McMahon, Thomas R. Trautmann and Andrew Shryock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 6. Food Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Daniel Lord Smail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 7. Deep Kinship Thomas R. Trautmann, Gillian Feeley-Harnik and John C. Mitani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Part Four. Human Expansion
Chapter 8. Migration Timothy Earle, Clive Gamble and Hendrik Poinar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 9. Goods Daniel Lord Smail, Mary C. Stiner and Timothy Earle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 10. Scale Mary C. Stiner, Timothy Earle, Daniel Lord Smail and Andrew Shryock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 360

eBook

Published: November 7, 2011
ISBN: 9780520949669