Lineages of Modernity

Lineages of Modernity PDF

Author: Emmanuel Todd

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-06-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1509534482

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In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our present situation, and where we are heading. In this major new book, the leading sociologist, historical anthropologist and demographer Emmanuel Todd sheds fresh light on our current predicament by reconstructing the historical dynamics of human societies from the Stone Age to the present. Eschewing the tendency to attribute special causal significance to the economy, Todd develops an anthropological account of history, focusing on the long-term dynamics of family systems and their links to religion and ideology – what he sees as the slow-moving, unconscious level of society, in contrast to the conscious level of the economy and politics. He also analyses the dramatic changes brought about by the spread of education. This enables him to explain the different historical trajectories of the advanced nations and the growing divergence between them, a divergence that can be observed in such phenomena as the rise of the Anglosphere in the modern period, the paradox of a Homo americanus who is both innovative and archaic, the startling electoral success of Donald Trump, the lack of realism in the will to power shown by Germany and China, the emergence of stable authoritarian democracy in Russia, the new introversion of Japan and the recent turbulent developments in Europe, including Brexit. This magisterial account of human history brings into sharp focus the massive transformations taking place in the world today and shows that these transformations have less to do with the supposedly homogenizing effects of globalization and the various reactions to it than with an ethnic diversity that is deeply rooted in the long history of human evolution.

On the Aymara Indians of Bolivia and Peru

On the Aymara Indians of Bolivia and Peru PDF

Author: David Forbes

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781230235387

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...disgusting; but having been often described by former travellers, since it is in common use in many parts of South America, I need not further refer to it than to state that it is not alone appreciated by the Indians; for the whites and Europeans in Bolivia, as a rule, take to it with apparent relish. Chicha is also made from the quinoa seeds. In some parts a fermented drink is made by the Indians from the sweet stalk of the young green Indian corn, called "huiru" (wiru): this is the name of the stalk. Of late years, however, the establishment of large manufactories on the coast of Peru for the distillation of "chancaca," or unrefined sugar and molasses, has sent in great quantities of a very inferior white rum, or "aguardiente" as it is called, amongst these Indians, and is rapidly doing great mischief amongst them. The two main dishes of the Aymara cuisine are the chupe and the chairo. The former of these is common all over the northern countries (at least of the Pacific coast) of South America, and consists of a soup made with potatoes and any flesh or fowl which may be to hand, as well as any other vegetables convenient, never omitting to add some red-pepper pods. The chairo, however, is peculiar to the highlands of Bolivia and Peru, its fundamental ingredient being chuno instead of potatoes; and to this, as in the case of the chupe, any flesh (generally of the llama or sheep) or fowl is added. Although, from the dirty-looking leather-like fragments of chuno which mainly compose it, the chairo has at first a far from inviting aspect, which certainly would not recommend it at a European table, a taste for it is soon acquired, and it is even relished by the traveller who visits the inhospitable Puna of...

On the Aymara Indians

On the Aymara Indians PDF

Author: David Forbes

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780484059497

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Excerpt from On the Aymara Indians: Of Bolivia and Peru The country inhabited by the Aymara race of Indians is nearly equally divided between the two south-american republics of Bolivia and Peru, forming the most northern or, rather, north western part of Bolivia and the southernmost of Peru. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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