The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies
As he draws heavily from his decades of fieldwork in the Pacific islands, as well as data from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others, this is Jared Diamond's most personal book to date. Although Diamond doesn't romanticise old societies—after all, some of their customs are shocking—he thinks that they have a lot to teach us about how to handle common human issues like child raising, elder care, conflict resolution, risk, and physical fitness.