It’s rare that I encounter a lesswrong post that opens up a new area of human experience—especially rare for a post that doesn’t present an argument or a new interpretation or schema for analysing the world.
But this one does. A simple review, with quotes, of an ethnographical study of late 19th century Russian peasants, opened up a whole new world and potentially changed my vision of the past.
Worth it from its many book extracts and choice of subject matter.
It’s rare that I encounter a lesswrong post that opens up a new area of human experience—especially rare for a post that doesn’t present an argument or a new interpretation or schema for analysing the world.
But this one does. A simple review, with quotes, of an ethnographical study of late 19th century Russian peasants, opened up a whole new world and potentially changed my vision of the past.
Worth it from its many book extracts and choice of subject matter.