ISBN:
9780198744429
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9780191061844 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
303 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191061844
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live - our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values - seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating, baffling,sometimes terrifying. Why is this?In A Foot in the River, best-selling historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto sifts through the evidenc...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
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