Origins - José Serra

Origins

Learning to learn from what we already know. Long before modern science, industrialisation, or digital technology, different peoples developed sophisticated ways of understanding nature's cycles, producing food, caring for health, transmitting knowledge, resolving conflicts, and finding meaning in life. This book explores these accumulated learnings across generations and seeks to understand what the modern world has forgotten along the way.

From diet to spirituality, from agriculture to traditional medicine, from rituals to education, from artisanal techniques to the relationship with nature, it shows how many ancestral knowledge systems were not signs of backwardness or superstition, but expressions of profound ecological, social, and cultural intelligence. Crossing anthropology, history, ecology, religion, and culture, Origins shows how peoples separated by oceans, languages, and eras often arrived at similar conclusions on the same question: how to live well without destroying what makes life possible. In a time marked by environmental crises, social fragmentation, and a loss of meaning, these ancient learnings can help us imagine more sustainable, more balanced, and more human ways of living.

Work details

• Author: José Serra
• Publisher: Alma dos Livros
• Category: History
• Number of pages: 312
• Cover: Paperback