作者简介

Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tribe, War, The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont. Together with Tim Hetherington, he directed the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.

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Now a New York Times bestseller

We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.

Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life. The loss of closeness that comes at the end of deployment may explain the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by military veterans today.

Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, TRIBE explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning. It explains the irony that-for many veterans as well as civilians-war feels better than peace, adversity can turn out to be a blessing, and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings or tropical vacations. TRIBE explains why we are stronger when we come together, and how that can be achieved even in today's divided world.


Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tribe, War, The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont. Together with Tim Hetherington, he directed the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for jou...

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  • 沙拉勺子
    虽然好像我并没有抓住什么实际的把柄,但是总觉得作者在尝试混淆几个概念。。。说它胜在短也可以,因为确实很小一本书;说它胜在长也可以,因为根本就是一篇扩写的essay。所以看了也不吃亏,也是有些point有点启发的,就是PTSD.07-17
  • 五月更生
    Junger对于Tribe的描述简直像伊甸园一样,让人不得不心存怀疑;后半段关于战事、PTSD、战士回家后的归属感,明显更为有力。07-13
  • bobking
    Offered a few explanations about the tribal behaviors in modern society, war or peacetime, from evolutionary, anthropological, phenomenalogical point of view. All in all, human survives best at a tribal community consisting of 40-50 closely connected, egalitarian members while a mega city holds up to 10-20 million ones,creating psychological chaos.02-05

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