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This book traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve.

Social evolution. --- Civilization --- Human beings --- Culture diffusion. --- Evolution sociale --- Civilisation --- Homme --- Diffusion culturelle --- History. --- Effect of environment on. --- Histoire --- Influence de l'environnement --- Diamond, Jared, --- Social evolution --- Ethnology --- Culture diffusion --- History --- Effect of environment on --- Criticism and interpretation --- WORLD HISTORY --- Civilization - History --- Human beings - Effect of environment on --- Diamond, Jared, - 1937- - Criticism and interpretation --- Diamond, Jared, - 1937 --- -Social evolution.

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L'inégalité dans la répartition des richesses entre les sociétés est liée aux différences de milieux, pas aux différences génétiques. Mobilisant des disciplines aussi diverses que la génétique, la biologie moléculaire, l'écologie des comportements, l'épidémiologie, la linguistique, l'archéologie et l'histoire des technologies, Jared Diamond montre notamment : le rôle de la production alimentaire (c'est-à-dire la domestication des plantes et des animaux sauvages, puis l'augmentation des vivres par l'agriculture et l'élevage, qui permet d'entretenir des bureaucraties et des artisans spécialisés dans la production des armes) ; l'évolution des germes caractéristiques des populations humaines denses favorisées par la révolution agricole (les germes eurasiens ont tué plus d'indigènes américains et non eurasiens que les fusils ou les armes d'acier des Eurasiens) ; le rôle de la géographie dans la diffusion contrastée de l'écriture et de la technologie, selon la latitude en Eurasie, mais la longitude aux Amériques et en Afrique. A l'ère de la globalisation, Jared Diamond nous propose opportunément cet essai, en tout point singulier, sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les sociétés.

Social evolution --- Civilization --- Human beings --- Evolution sociale --- Civilisation --- Homme --- History --- Effect of environment on --- Histoire --- Influence de l'environnement --- Anthropologie --- Environnement --- Ethnologie --- Ethnology --- Culture diffusion --- Diamond, Jared, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Classes sociales --- Évolution sociale --- Nature --- Sociologie politique --- Géographie sociale --- Aspect social --- Effets de l'homme --- Aspect social. --- Géographie sociale. --- Classes sociales. --- Évolution sociale. --- Sociologie politique. --- Histoire. --- Effets de l'homme. --- Civilization - History --- Human beings - Effect of environment on --- Diamond, Jared, - 1937- - Criticism and interpretation --- Acqui 2006 --- Diamond, Jared, - 1937 --- -Acqui 2006 --- -Social evolution

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Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people. This collection is both part of this ferment and an intellectual reflection upon it. Religion and Cultural Studies features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture. Despite the variety of disciplines represented by this group of scholars and the variety of cultures explored in their essays--from fifteenth-century Flemish asceticism and nineteenth-century African-American spiritualism to Russian blood-libel trials and Alien Abduction Reports in the twentieth century--their common ground is the question of religion's place in current American academic analysis, and more broadly in American life today. The volume's range of vocabulary and subject matter is aimed at vitalizing scholarly interest in the field of religion and cultural studies and deepening intellectual inquiry in the contemporary academy. The contributors are Eytan Bercovitch, Karen McCarthy Brown, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Richard Wightman Fox, Jenny Franchot, Giles Gunn, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Bruce B. Lawrence, Jack Miles, Susan L. Mizruchi, and Jonathan Z. Smith.

Religion and culture --- Religion and culture. --- United States --- Religion. --- Abraham. --- Acosta, Jose. --- Alexander the Great. --- Appadurai, Arjun. --- Aristotle. --- Arnold, Matthew. --- Bachelard, Gaston. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Bellah, Robert. --- Bhabha, Homi. --- Bradford, William. --- Brown, John. --- Cameron, William. --- Carver, Raymond. --- Castells, Manuel. --- Chance, David. --- Comstock, Anthony. --- Cooper, James Fenimore. --- Cunningham, Merce. --- Day, Dorothy. --- Delbanco, Andrew. --- Diamond, Jared. --- Doctor, Laura Parker. --- Duden, Barbara. --- Eagleton, Terry. --- Eastman, Max. --- Eliot, George. --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. --- Euclid. --- Falk, Candace. --- Fiedler, Leslie. --- Flaubert, Gustave. --- Fraser, Nancy. --- Frye, Northrup. --- Gaylin, Willard. --- Goldman, Emma. --- Greeley, Horace. --- Hall, David. --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. --- Hill, Barney. --- Homer. --- Ingold, Tim. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Jones, William. --- Kern, Stephen. --- Klaw, Spencer. --- Kuspit, Donald. --- Lawrence, Peter. --- Masuzawa, Tomoko. --- Morgan, Alfred Gray. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Nash, June C. --- Noah.