The invention of prehistory : empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins
| 1. Verfasser: |
Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
[2024]
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: The human epic
- Part 1. Scattered shapes of a fabulous past (from the 1750s to the 1870s). The infancy of humanity
- Europe's "indigenous" noble savages
- The creatures deep time invented
- Humanity, divided by three
- The conflict of the sciences
- Part 2. The concepts that tied it all together (from the 1830s to World War I). Mother love: primitive communism
- The disappearing native
- Neanderthals, "our doubles"
- The thin veneer
- On the antiquity of the psyche
- Part 3. The horror, Part 1 (from 1900 to the 1960s). The hordes and the flood
- Nazis
- Bomb them back to the Stone Age
- The Manchurian Catholic and the future of the humanity
- Part 4. The new scientific ideologies: or the horror, Part 2 (since 1930, and still ongoing). Darwin in the age of UNESCO
- A history of cave painting
- Killer apes for an age of decolonization
- Stone-age computers
- The births and ends of patriarchy
- Is violence ingrained, and how?
- Epilogue: A storm blowing from paradise.
