Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the many challenges today?s returning veterans face in modern society. There are ancient tribal human behaviors-loyalty, inter-reliance, cooperation-that flare up in communities during times of turmoil and suffering. These are the very same beha Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at post-traumatic stre...
| Title | : | Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging |
| Author | : | Sebastian Junger |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : | Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging ISBN |
| Edition Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 pages pages |
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Reviews
A fascinating book about community and belonging, and how modern society has moved us away from our roots in potentially signifiant ways. The book opens with a thought provoking fact: in early America, there were numerous instances of white people joining primitive, native Indian socie...
I wish there were ideas here that were new to me, but it?s the same ideas I?ve held true for years. If it was new, than maybe it wouldn?t be obvious? and maybe it wouldn?t be true. But it?s true. It?s obvious. It?s Wendell Berry and Charles Bowden and Joseph Campbell an...
This book provides a convincing articulation of reasons why modern society is ill suited to the innate social needs of homo sapiens (i.e. human beings). Our ancestors lived?and evolved?many thousands of years in hunter gatherer groups that were closely bonded together in a cooperat...
?Robert Frost famously wrote that home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. The word ?tribe? is far harder to define, but a start might be the people you feel compelled to share the last of your food with?This book is about why that sentiment...
Update Yesterday I had a friend request saying that he didn't want to friend me just to tell me that he objected to my review being so prominent when it was wrong, crap etc. as the author hadn't meant what I said. I didn't read the rest of the long wodge of no doubt insulting text but ...
Tribe is a magazine article, not a book ? and readers are advised to take seriously the twice-repeated warning that the text is ?unaltered? from the version that appeared in Vanity Fair in 2015. As a magazine ?think piece,? it was no doubt compelling in the way that ?seriou...
A quirky little book about a big topic, much bigger than vets and PTSD, and American Indian tribes. Our entire society is sick because there's a lot of suicide and evil people get away with their assorted crimes. Civilization produces many benefits but many bad side effects as well...
As previous reviews have pointed out, this is a very short book. I read it in a little over an hour. But it is dense, well-written, well thought through and so damn important. Junger brings up the ideas that should be a primary part of the national conversation, but mostly aren't being...
"Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it." -Sebastian Junger. Every veteran and visitor to a war-zone should read 'Tribe" when returning to their home country. Not only does the book connec...
Back in the 90s, my father said email and the Internet were making people unable to communicate with each other. This was before smart phones and social media. But if you've ever agreed that we are becoming more distanced and less comfortable with face-to-face communication, this book ...
Junger has an appealing message. That humans have evolved a high order of altruism associated with our tribal social nature which leads us to be willing to take great risks to save another member of the tribe. In many circumstances people are willing to sacrifice themselves for total s...
Junger's most recent work - his documentaries, as well as his books - have been keen observations of the lives of soldiers. This is a short meditation on PTSD, where front-line troops and other veterans have a difficult time reintegrating into society - that war, for all of its hardshi...
Proves the adage that good things can come in small packages. In this short book, not a wasted word, Junger combines memoir, journalism and scholarly writing to give us a book that makes one think about where our society has been and where it is heading. Tackles the tough subjects of t...
An expanded version of an article that first appeared in Vanity Fair titled "How PTSD Became a Problem Far Beyond the Battlefield." Junger has matured as one of the finest American reporters in print. Thinking of him as "the Perfect Storm guy" is as reductive as thinking of Jon Krakaue...
**Warning: This review may be longer than the entire book.** Interesting and thought provoking; if not entirely convincing. On the one hand, some very compelling ideas about the feeling of smaller, close knit communities and how they can foster and encourage good mental health and e...
Is Western civilization the pinnacle of human achievement? In Tribe, Sebastian Junger questions this notion by looking at, among other examples, why colonial Americans left behind the burgeoning settlements to live with the tribal Indians; why, as technological advances have sped up ov...
Wow. By far the best non fiction I've read so far this year (2016). Timely. Engaging. In my opinion, his best work yet. I'm tempted to complain that it is too short, but the point gets hammered home effectively. It should be required school reading. I'll be thinking about this for a wh...
Loved it. A well-written rumination on the basic human need for belonging and communal living. And how our fractured, alienating and isolating modern society opposes our tribal instincts which can lead to very unfortunate circumstances. ...
Sebastian Junger poses that tribal societies had a strong sense of community and fairness because these values were necessary to survive. He poses that while tribal culture buffered its members against catastrophic loss (illness, death, violent weather) its sense of community was prote...
I won this as a Goodreads giveaway.* Loved this book. I found it completely fascinating and am looking forward to reading more from Sebastian Junger. ...
There are many great books that I cannot wait to introduce to my customers - but then there are other books that I become obsessed with and so passionate for that I need to put it into every single person's hand that walks into my bookstore. Sebastian Junger's new book "Tribe" is one o...
Sebastian Junger takes us on a historical journey that is both anthropological and psychological in his latest work of non-fiction, Tribe. The age old cliche that history repeats itself is being realized in today's society and Junger presents many examples of this with warrior re-integ...
This book asks a question that resonates quite widely: why does an ultra-wealthy, safe and individually-free society feel so miserable for so many people? Rates of depression and suicide are actually much higher in fully modernized societies, despite an abundance of goods and rights. P...
Junger, a war correspondent and world traveler, seeks to promote tribal life, as seen both historically and currently in American Indian and aboriginal groups around the world, as well as in the military. He blames individualism (in terms of hurting the society, such as in alienation a...
Tribe provides a good foundation for discussions about war, community, gender roles, government, economics, justice, violence, and the intersections of all of the above. It also has some really interesting statistics kind of scattered throughout. That said, as a book on its own, I foun...
This book floored me. I found myself highlighting passage over passage, having to set the book aside and reflect. Before starting, I was worried that this book would focus too heavily on soldiers, and although that certainly was a focal point, the narrative was expansive and evaluated ...
I have read several articles recently about our society?s problems with individualism. When I saw Junger?s short book on the subject, I thought it might give me a more in-depth viewpoint on the subject, which it did. Junger tells of Benjamin Franklin?s 1753 observation that wh...
More of a long essay, Junger's book is another way of looking at why the world is in a mess, consumerism and economic growth may be easy to measure but don't make life happier and no surprises, man is a tribal animal. He is probably right unfortunately. His use of American Indians pro...
There are many good ideas in this book, including disorders of trauma as disorders of integration, isolation, and group dynamic, however I had too many issues with the way this story was told to fully embrace the important message it meant to convey. When I read ?tribe? in this bo...
A nostalgic and masculist view on group behaviour and PTSD. Junger promotes a more tribal lifestyle and he thinks we all need hardship, catastrophes and war in order to connect with others. I could hardly finish this short book and he certainly didn't convince me. His arguments...
