The History of People. The Diversity of Humanity in 73 Chapters

All people of all times take names, have defined families and relatives, give gifts to each other, decorate their bodies, take care of their hair, can count, use gestures, make tools, divide work among themselves, know the laws, mourn and somehow "dance". In 1945, cultural anthropologist George P. Murdock made a classic inventory of “cultural universals”, phenomena common to all human groupings in time and space, based on the data he had collected. This richly illustrated book builds on these records and in 73 topic-based chapters outlines the incredible diversity – and fundamental uniformity – of all human beings. The basis of the work, which also presents hundreds of diverse ethnic groups (such as the Inuit, Comanche, Aztec, Maori, Kapauku, Toda, Nuer, !Kung, Pygmy people, and others) as well as the classical ethnological concepts, was formed by over seventy episodes of the Antro series, which ran for almost two years in Saturday's issues of the daily Lidové noviny (in the Orientation supplement).