Man on Earth A Celebration of Mankind Author:John Reader Man on Earth is a record of a personal pilgrimage by John Reader visiting many peoples whose modes of adaptation to ecology tell extraordinary stories of human ingenuity. Reader has also ransacked the social-anthropological and historical literature to abstract the essential factual basis for a set of meticuously chronicled and objectiv... more »e accounts. His photography shows the same precise focus, pictorially pinning down essential traits of his hosts in memorable compositions, some of great beauty. A remarkably comprehensive and vivid survey of cultural adaptation and the origins of contemporary society.
In Man on Earth, Reader looks to the function of culture as a survival strategy, and seeks the tangled and obscure links between cultures in territory, ownership and food produciton, marriage, sex, and religion, reaffirming the value of diversity on human life in an age when it is under threat from a global and single culture.« less