The Story of Us All
by Sam Miller
- Author(s)
- Sam Miller
- Publication
- London : Little, Brown, 2023
- Scope
- 441 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781408713532
For most of human’s existence, we were all nomads, and some of us still are. Houses and permanent settlements are a relatively late development - dating back little more than twelve thousand years. Miller presents us with an alternative history of the world, in which migration is restored to the heart of the human story. And in which humans migrate for a wide range of reasons: not just because of civil war, or poverty or climate change but also out of curiosity and a sense of adventure. On arrival, migrants are expected both to assimilate and encouraged to remain distinctive; to defend their heritage and adopt a new one. Sub-human and super-human; romanticised and castigated, admired and abhorred. Migrants tells us that this is not a new narrative; this is the history of us all, part of everybody’s backstory.
- Keywords
- migration
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie
- Remarks
- Includes notes, references, index
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