{"product_id":"deep-history-the-architecture-of-past-and-present-paperback","title":"Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Shryock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Lord Smail\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTimothy Earle\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumans 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, \u003ci\u003eDeep History\u003c\/i\u003e invites scholars and general readers alike to explore the dynamic of connectedness that spans all of human history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith Timothy Earle, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto, Clive Gamble, April McMahon, John C. Mitani, Hendrik Poinar, Mary C. Stiner, and Thomas R. Trautmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging across the disciplines, this truly collaborative team cuts through the constraints of our previous notions of historical understanding and points towards a fundamental new way of thinking about history.--Lynn Hunt, author of \u003ci\u003eMeasuring Time, Making History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In recent decades, history as a discipline has increasingly portrayed humans as an exception in the story of life, as though all other life-forms were part of nature but humans somehow were not, or not quite. This book issues a profound and timely challenge to that implicit assumption and argues for an integration of deep and recorded human pasts. The challenge is profound, because it is at once methodological and philosophical, and it is timely in the way it resonates with concerns about our growing ecological footprint on the planet. This collaborative enterprise will appeal to students of human pasts in a variety of disciplines.\" --Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of \u003ci\u003eProvincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leading scholars in deep history have been brought together from a variety of disciplines in this ambitious project. The result is constantly exciting. I read barely a page that didn't cause me to reconsider how we might tell the human story.\"--Martin Jones, University of Cambridge \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDeep History: The Architecture of Past and Present\u003c\/i\u003e, a multi-disciplinary team of historians, archeologists, paleontologists, primatologists, and anthropologists takes up the challenge of incorporating the past six million or so years into the record of human history. Combining open minds with scholarly rigor, the authors use linguistics and genetics, trails of bones, shells and crafted objects, dietary traditions, and kinship rules to follow our footloose species out of Africa and around the globe, along the way dismantling barriers between disciplines that have outlived their usefulness.\" --Sarah B. Hrdy, author of \u003ci\u003eMother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Shryock\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press) winner of the Middle Eastern Studies Association's Albert Hourani Award, among other books. \u003cb\u003eDaniel Lord Smail \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at Harvard University. Among his books is \u003ci\u003eOn Deep History and the Brain, (UC Press)\u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize in Science and Technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723842162751,"sku":"9780520274624","price":64.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1fdf0c57c893619c35288c336c9d289a.webp?v=1765100572","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/deep-history-the-architecture-of-past-and-present-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}