So much stuff how humans discovered tools, invented meaning, and made more of everything
On the origin of things : an introduction -- Leap 1 : make tools. First things first; The matter at hand; Everything under the sun -- Leap 2 : make meaning. A thing of beauty; Articles of faith; Dress coded -- Leap 3 : make more. In the thick of things; A material world; Too much of a good thing.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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The University of Chicago Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | On the origin of things : an introduction -- Leap 1 : make tools. First things first; The matter at hand; Everything under the sun -- Leap 2 : make meaning. A thing of beauty; Articles of faith; Dress coded -- Leap 3 : make more. In the thick of things; A material world; Too much of a good thing. "To be human means to need things. Even more human is to need more and more of them. In this engaging, charming book, archaeologist, curator, and writer Chip Colwell takes us around the world, covering topics as wide-ranging as the dawn of tool making, the earliest cave paintings, the complexities of clothing, the Industrial Revolution, the torrent of gizmos invented to bring us closer and supposedly make our lives easier, and, finally, the mountains of unwanted stuff in dumps. Along the way, he raises questions such as: Why is a treasured keepsake sacred to one person but meaningless to another? What do we go through when we clean out the belongings of the dearly departed? And what is the point of storing things in museums? The book is organized around three historical phases: (1) the invention of tools; (2) the dawn of the belief that things mean something beyond their immediate use (around 50,000 years ago); and (3) the Industrial Revolution and the age of mass consumption. Colwell takes us on a tour across millions of years to explain how humans have arrived at this moment-a world that both requires things and is suffering because of them"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 323 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226801421 978-0-226-80142-1 |