For most humans living today, it's hard to imagine life without written language, governments and large-scale agriculture. But on the scale of human history, all of these are recent inventions. Until ...

List of tables and figures -- Prologue: At the airport: -- Airport scene -- Why study traditional societies? -- States -- Types of traditional societies -- Approaches, causes, and sources -- Small ...

Classroom learning is indispensable in a modern society. But in pre-modern societies, children learn to be contributing family and community members via self-guided exploration, observation and ...

Introduction : a perspective on traditional Micronesian life -- Micronesia and Micronesians -- The prehistory of Micronesian societies -- Descent and descent groups -- Household and family, land and ...