Charles C Mann Summary
Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Vintage, 2006.
Author’s Biography
Charles C. Mann was born in the year of 1955. He lived the first initial years of his life in Detroit, Michigan., but before starting middle school his parents made the choice to move to the Pacific Northwest. He had attended Amherst College and graduated in the class of 1976. Mann worked for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired as a successful correspondent. He has also written editorials for The New York Times, and co written other books prior to 1491. Charles is an American journalist and author that specifies in scientific areas. Charles gained many opportunities to travel to many famous location such as Rome, …show more content…
As most indigenous people somewhat naturally transformed the land though burn tactics. Mann also examines what he called the “Holmberg’s mistake”. “Holmberg’s mistake” was named after the anthropologist Allan r. Holmberg, who took time to live among the Siriono in the 1940s. In Holmberg’s account he deemed the society as the most backward society in the world to his standards of the time. Yet Mann helps challenge this thought as Holmberg only sees what the aftermath of what smallpox and influenza had to a society, Mann describes them as “persecuted survivors of a recently shattered …show more content…
Mann presents us with a huge amount of evidence as he shows us how culturally advance some groups were, a prime example is the production of the maneuverable canoes. Mann also presents the reader with evidence of how truly equally matched colonists and Native Americans were as most guns at the time shot as far and as accurate as bows and arrows. The book presents population of these groups may have been greatly under estimated which shows us how actually devastating the bringing of European diseases was. Mann makes us think more about Native Americans before the introduction of European colonists and wonder did these great Empires truly fall just to the introduction of
Author’s Biography
Charles C. Mann was born in the year of 1955. He lived the first initial years of his life in Detroit, Michigan., but before starting middle school his parents made the choice to move to the Pacific Northwest. He had attended Amherst College and graduated in the class of 1976. Mann worked for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired as a successful correspondent. He has also written editorials for The New York Times, and co written other books prior to 1491. Charles is an American journalist and author that specifies in scientific areas. Charles gained many opportunities to travel to many famous location such as Rome, …show more content…
As most indigenous people somewhat naturally transformed the land though burn tactics. Mann also examines what he called the “Holmberg’s mistake”. “Holmberg’s mistake” was named after the anthropologist Allan r. Holmberg, who took time to live among the Siriono in the 1940s. In Holmberg’s account he deemed the society as the most backward society in the world to his standards of the time. Yet Mann helps challenge this thought as Holmberg only sees what the aftermath of what smallpox and influenza had to a society, Mann describes them as “persecuted survivors of a recently shattered …show more content…
Mann presents us with a huge amount of evidence as he shows us how culturally advance some groups were, a prime example is the production of the maneuverable canoes. Mann also presents the reader with evidence of how truly equally matched colonists and Native Americans were as most guns at the time shot as far and as accurate as bows and arrows. The book presents population of these groups may have been greatly under estimated which shows us how actually devastating the bringing of European diseases was. Mann makes us think more about Native Americans before the introduction of European colonists and wonder did these great Empires truly fall just to the introduction of