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So Much Stuff - Chip Colwell

So Much Stuff

How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything

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Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83663-8 (ISBN)
CHF 27,90 inkl. MwSt
How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.
 
Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged objects for slicing meat, making the first knives. This discovery resulted in a good meal and eventually changed the fate of our species and our planet.
 
With So Much Stuff, archaeologist Chip Colwell sets out to investigate why humankind went from self-sufficient primates to nonstop shoppers, from needing nothing to needing everything. Along the way, he uncovers spectacular and strange points around the world—an Italian cave with the world’s first known painted art, a Hong Kong skyscraper where a priestess channels the gods, and a mountain of trash that rivals the Statue of Liberty. Through these examples, Colwell shows how humanity took three leaps that led to stuff becoming inseparable from our lives, inspiring a love affair with things that may lead to our downfall. Now, as landfills brim and oceans drown in trash, Colwell issues a timely call to reevaluate our relationship with the things that both created and threaten to undo our overstuffed planet.
 

Chip Colwell is an archaeologist, former museum curator, and editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, a digital magazine about anthropological thinking and discoveries. He is the author and editor of twelve books, including the award-winning Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture, also published by the University of Chicago Press.  

On the Origin of Things: An Introduction

Leap 1: Make Tools

1. First Things First
2. The Matter at Hand
3. Everything under the Sun

Leap 2: Make Meaning

4. A Thing of Beauty
5. Articles of Faith
6. Dress Coded

Leap 3: Make More

7. In the Thick of Things
8. A Material World
9. Too Much of a Good Thing

On the Future of Things: A Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Key Terms and Concepts
Notes
References
Image Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 60 halftones
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-83663-0 / 0226836630
ISBN-13 978-0-226-83663-8 / 9780226836638
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