- Paperback: 229 pages
- Publisher: Key Porter Books (May 17 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550135082
- ISBN-13: 978-1550135084
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 458 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #164,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Winner of the 1994 Governor General`s Award "If you buy only one book this decade let it be Rogue Primate."- The Toronto Star (1994)
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An award-winning study of the relationship of humans to nature argues that humans have become so domesticated by and dependent on technology they can no longer truly relate to nature and are more prone to damage their environment. IP.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Human Domesticates, Nov 23 2005
By Paul Gates - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rogue primate: An exploration of human domestication (Hardcover)
The backbone of this book is the idea that human beings were/are the first domesticated species, and the ONLY evolved (being product of our biological and cultural history) domesticates. Human domestication was caused by dependence on a technology centered ideology that eventually led to the rationale frequently employed today of, "If we can do it, we should do it" (the people become servants of the tool as opposed to the tool serving those who employ it). Livingston explains that being a domesticate means being completely dependent upon something (one's handler) for survival; in the case of humans, the dependence is an ideology based on "storable, retrievable, transmissable technique." It is an exploration of how we (humans) got here and what it means to be the first domesticate, the only evolved one at that; he goes on to critique some of the aspects of present day civilization in light of the ideology of technology that it is founded on.
It's a marvelous book that anyone who is interested in evolution, ecology, social problems, ideology, or why humans are the way they are in general should enjoy reading. A very very great book; it's one of those rare pieces of scholarly writings that anyone can pick up, read, and understand. Like the other reviewer, I wasn't always in complete agreement, but that's only because the book was so thought provoking.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Buy this while it's still available, May 16 2008
By Richard Reese - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rogue primate: An exploration of human domestication (Hardcover)
Livingstone was a brilliant original thinker who was decades ahead of his time. The environmental community ignored him, because he was a robust critic of their ideology. This book does the best job that I have seen of describing humankind's transition from ordinary animals into domineering monsters. It's a crucial book for those who are seriously trying to understand ecological history.Richard Adrian Reese
Author of What Is Sustainable
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An Interesting Collection of Ideas, Dec 12 1997
By Nick Fraser (troll@troll.seanet.com) - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rogue primate: An exploration of human domestication (Hardcover)
This is one of the very few books that ever changed the way I look at things. I don't agree with all of the author's opinions (and he doesn't ask me to), but after reading this I doubt I'll ever look at humanity's relation to "Nature" - or even the idea of seperation of the two - the same way again.
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