The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures
among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive
and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we
think about ourselves. In the late nineteenth century, when
non-European societies were seen as 'living fossils' offering an
insight into how Western civilisation had evolved, anthropology was
a thrilling new discipline which attracted the brightest minds of
the academic world.But, by the middle of the twentieth century,
colonialism was recognised as being inextricably linked to
exploitation and outdated labels like 'savage' were inconceivable
when so-called 'civilised' man had wreaked such devastation across
two world wars. Focusing on twelve key European and American
anthropologists working in the field, from Franz Boas on Baffin
Island in the 1880s to Claude Levi-Strauss in Brazil fifty years
later, Lucy Moore explores the brief flowering of anthropology as a
quasi-scientific area of study with all its insights and
ambivalence. In Search of Us tells the story of the men and women
whose observations of the 'other' would transform attitudes about
race, gender equality, sexual liberation, parenting and tolerance
in ways they had never anticipated.In an enthralling, perceptive
narrative, Moore shows how these radical anthropologists were
inspired by their time in the furthest-flung reaches of the known
world, becoming pioneers of a new way of thinking. In the end,
their legacy is less about understanding foreign cultures and more
about their attempts to persuade human beings to look at one
another with eyes washed free from prejudice. Their intention may
have been to explain what they saw as the primitive world to the
civilised one but they ended up changing the way people viewed
themselves - at least for a time.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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