Reviews for In Indian tents

The average rating for In Indian tents based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-07 00:00:00 Michael Hester The other seminal book in what might be called collapse studies. But unlike Tainter, this does not try to exhaustively catalog examples, and create a unifying theory to fit them into. Instead, there is an examination of how it is that we are using the word "collapse," and a realization that societies are not single units, to rise and fall as a whole. In fact, it is suggested that the network of social boundaries are always being renegotiated in a society, and that political, economic, environmental (etc.) collapses always play a different role in the big picture. The greater nuance of this book inspired and challenged me to rethink my own ideas of society.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-27 00:00:00 Gerald Panneton Awfully technical jargon. A lot was hard to understand. And really they did not conclude anything. One senses they were too timid to. But I did learn something about China civilizations. And more about other parts of the world, development of culture in other parts of the world.