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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
1 review
jonwood's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
2.75
I wanted to like this book, but just did not. I found the author waxing poetically and trying to make major philosophical insights a bit too much for a science history book. Reading the acknowledgments, she made a comment about this book being her attempt to be an ultimate history on the subject, and perhaps she let that standard go to her head a bit too much writing purply prose to inflate the importance, scope of the book. I don't know, I just found many passages tedious to read. The author would frequently mention how we shouldn't speculate or project our views/bias onto Neanderthals, but it often felt like she was doing that, especially the beginning of each chapter starting with a superfluous narrative, that sounds like it was made to inflate the importance of the book. Also, I found the book confusingly organized, I get she did it by topic, but I think if it was done by site or history, it would have been easier to follow her references and remember what site, Neanderthal skeleton was which.
Moderate: Death
Minor: Classism and Colonisation
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