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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Numerous early European colonial settlers chose to live among Native American tribes.
Chapter 3: Tribal life appealed because it was much more egalitarian than Western society overall.
Chapter 4: Tribal societies are more aligned with human nature and freer than modern Western societies.
Chapter 5: War often draws out the best in people and produces surprising psychological effects.
Chapter 6: Natural disasters help unite people by greatly simplifying everyday life.
Chapter 7: Experiencing a war up close and personal truly transforms the way you see life.
Chapter 8: War forges special bonds, and this makes returning to normal life especially hard for veterans.
Chapter 9: Western societies could learn a lot from Native American war healing rituals.
Description
Tribe (2016) scans the historical horizon and plumbs psychological depths to ask what it takes for us to feel at home in the world. Drawing on a wealth of evidence from multiple disciplines, author Sebastian Junger has an unsettling answer: it’s often in the midst of chaos and war that we develop our deepest sense of belonging. From the Blitz to American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, extreme danger welds groups together and highlights the sense of community so sorely missing in everyday life.
Who Should Listen
- Soldiers, veterans and their families
- Anyone fascinated by the life of the mind
- History buffs