Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture Pitcher Ben
Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture Pitcher Ben Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier,…
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Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture Pitcher Ben
Prehistoric human life is a common reference point in contemporary culture, inspiring attempts to become happier, healthier, or better people. In Back to the Stone Age Ben Pitcher explores how ideas about race are tightly woven into the powerful origin stories we use to explain who we are, where we came from, and what we are like. Exploited by capitalism, overwhelmed by technology, and living in the shadow of environmental catastrophe, we call on the prehistoric to escape the present, and to model alternative ways of living our lives.
Using a broad range of examples from popular culture - from everyday practices like lighting fires and walking in the woods to engagements with genetic technologies and Neanderthal DNA, from megaliths and museum mannequins to television shows and best-selling nonfiction - Pitcher demonstrates how prehistory is alive in the twenty-first century, and argues
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Race, Culture and Media
Race, Culture and Psychotherapy