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Indlæser... On Deep History and the Brain (2007)af Daniel Lord Smail
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Smail's concept is that there is an artificial divide between pre-history (what he calls deep history) and history and that the biological and evolutionary history of humanity can be better understood by bridging the gap. At least that's what I think it was about because unfortunately my brain was too small to grasp much of this book. For a slender book, Smail did an exhaustive amount of work detailing the idea of when history began through the ages and the time when history "begins" has remained steady even as the reasoning as moved from sacred to scientific. In place of the current paradigm, Smail proposes a neurohistory or a study of the evolution of the human brain. Interesting stuff even if most of it went over my head. Full review: ( http://bachlab.balbach.net/coolread4.html#deephistory ) in summary: excellent historiographical and philosophy of history essay on how to incorporate evolution into the study of history. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel Lord Smail argues that in the wake of the Decade of the Brain and the best-selling historical work of scientists like Jared Diamond, the time has come for fundamentally new ways of thinking about our past. He shows how recent work in evolution and paleohistory makes it possible to join the deep past with the recent past and abandon, once and for all, the idea of prehistory. Making an enormous literature accessible to the general reader, he lays out a bold new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history. No library descriptions found. |
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I also like (ie am entertained by!) the way Smail freely cites rather strongly opposed perspectives where they suit his line of argument. It would be great to get Smail in the same room with Dawkins and Stephen J Gould and chair their discussion, though sadly we'll have to wait for the afterlife to get Gould.
No idea really how significant (or even how valid) Smail's conclusions are; sadly it doesn't appear that many people or departments have summoned up the substantial specialist resources that would be needed to go seriously down his line. However I see there's a more recent book (November 2011): Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present, by a multidisciplinarty team (including Smail), be interesting to see how much more work they've done. ( )