{"product_id":"135158","title":"petty humanity ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYCU97qL3z6DeXoGPs2DhhUWMhrkB.png?v=1765096164\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e petty humanity \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/154830645\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e★★Highly recommended by reporter Da-hye Lee and astronomer Chae-kyung Shim★★\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Humans are ultimately evolving beings.”\u003cbr\u003e An anthropologist's daily observations in search of traces of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paleoanthropologists trace the lives of our ancestors by searching for traces of ancient humans through fossilized bone fragments and artifacts from millions of years ago.\u003cbr\u003e Where in the long history of primate evolution does humanity begin? Professor Lee Sang-hee, South Korea's first paleoanthropologist, presents his first essay, \"Trivial Humans,\" which explores the \"humanity\" of the first humans and the daily lives of today as seen through the eyes of a professional who constantly ponders what it means to be a \"human being.\"\u003cbr\u003e Professor Lee Sang-hee is the first Korean paleoanthropologist to study paleoanthropology in the United States before the field was even introduced to Korean academic circles. \u003cbr\u003eThe author humorously and sharply unfolds the everyday thoughts and feelings she experiences while walking on the ground with both feet, reading books, seeing the colorful naked bodies of women in the bathhouse, raising children and giving birth, and raising a dog.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Prologue: I invite you to the world of a small human being.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.\u003cbr\u003e Learning humanity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How I Became a Paleoanthropologist│A Story Not on My Business Card│Celebrating Lucy's 50th Birthday│Mongolian Points and Genghis Khan│The Origin of Falling│The Beijing Man is Alive│Prehistoric Men│The Call of Instinct│At the Graduation Ceremony│Are You a Liberal Arts Student?│A Liberal Arts Student's Argument│The Face of a Scholar\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2.\u003cbr\u003e living humanity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Gloomy Valley of Death│Memories of a Fire│Kyunjung's Diary│Throwing Away Food Waste│Precious Childhood│Fighting Against Time│Ji Cheon-myeong's Cello│Jjong-jjong and Koda│Friendship Moves the World│Memories of Persepolis│The Uninvited Guest of Reactivity│The Path to Becoming an Elder\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3.\u003cbr\u003e The human race called women\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Word \"Feminine\"│Jeans and Mr. Lee│Housework Wars│A Good Time to Have a Baby│A Salaried Professor│Becoming a Second-Ranking Professor│A Motherly Professor│Rude Goodwill│Meeting Sarah Nelson│Wan-kyung and the Grandmother Hypothesis│Venus in the Bathhouse│Ramen Solidarity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Solidarity of Rice and Porridge\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5686\/MidCate001\/568500219.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e To be honest, at the time, the joy of being able to leave home was greater than the desire to study further.\u003cbr\u003e I was not equipped to face the suffocating atmosphere at home head-on.\u003cbr\u003e In those days, the only reason for a grown woman to leave home was marriage. \u003cbr\u003eBut I didn't want to get married without being financially independent and rely solely on my husband's income to get out of my parents' house.\u003cbr\u003e What I wanted was independence, not separation.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.16 From \"Somehow I Became a Paleoanthropologist\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I no longer need business cards, but whenever I see the moment when I become the first Asian woman elected as the president of the faculty council in the history of the school, or whenever I encounter the title \"Korea's first paleoanthropologist\" that the Korean media naturally adds to my name when introducing me, a new business card piles up in my mind.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.26 From “The Story Not on the Business Card”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To think that I have to entrust my life to such a poor move.\u003cbr\u003e Human bipedal walking is of no help whatsoever to life in the harsh realm of nature.\u003cbr\u003e And it's not that fast either. \u003cbr\u003eIt's not fast, there's a risk of falling, and there's no way to move on your own other than walking on two feet.\u003cbr\u003e In fact, bipedal walking monopolizes human locomotion.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.42 From “The Origin of Falling”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Humans give meaning to the dead by burying them in the ground.\u003cbr\u003e It is estimated that humans began burying their dead during the Neanderthal era and the European Paleolithic period.\u003cbr\u003e But soon after, they started burying dead dogs in the ground too.\u003cbr\u003e The oldest dog grave is a 14,000-year-old site found in Oberkassel, Bonn, Germany.\u003cbr\u003e It is a grave where two dogs and two people are buried. One of the dogs was said to have been terminally ill but survived for another month through care.\u003cbr\u003e It means that dogs were valued as much as people today.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.111 From \"Kyeonjung Diary\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You get used to the smell of goat manure and food waste. \u003cbr\u003eHumans would have survived to the end thanks to their powerful adaptability to adapt to any environment.\u003cbr\u003e But this great adaptability can sometimes be a double-edged sword.\u003cbr\u003e Just as people become insensitive to incredibly foul smells over time, they also quickly become accustomed to outrageous corruption, arrogance, and coercion.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.119 From “Throwing Away Food Waste”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The brain continues to grow without rest from the fetal period until immediately after birth, reaching almost its full size around the age of six.\u003cbr\u003e And for the next six years, the child puts everything else aside and practices using the most important organ in the human body: the brain.\u003cbr\u003e Absorb, digest, and apply the information necessary to survive.\u003cbr\u003e We create various relationships in society and try countless variations of cooperation, conflict, mediation, reconciliation, and negotiation. \u003cbr\u003eSo, childhood, which seems like a time when nothing happens, is actually a time entirely for learning.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.125 From “Precious Childhood”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During the time I was fighting against time, I tried my best to take as much time as possible away from myself.\u003cbr\u003e Now I know that time can never be mine, so I don't fight for it or take it away.\u003cbr\u003e I am finally walking with time.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.134 From \"Fighting Time\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The conclusion is clear.\u003cbr\u003e As a woman, if you're thinking about your career, there's no better time to have a baby.\u003cbr\u003e No matter when you give birth, it's so hard that you'll die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But this conclusion is based on a faulty premise.\u003cbr\u003e The premise is that giving birth and raising a child is entirely the responsibility of a woman, a mother.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.199 From “A Good Time to Have a Baby”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Indeed, one of the students who had been praising me at length finally spoke up as if he had made up his mind.\u003cbr\u003e “But… the lectures are too intense. \u003cbr\u003e“We have a professor who…” I waited calmly for him to continue.\u003cbr\u003e “We just wish you were more… motherly.” At that moment, I couldn’t believe my ears.\u003cbr\u003e I was so embarrassed that even now, 20 years later, I can still clearly remember the sentence the student blurted out.\u003cbr\u003e My heart was pounding and my face was flushing, and I was at a loss as to what to do. My mind was blank, but I tried to answer coolly, as if it were a joke.\u003cbr\u003e “I’m doing my best as a mother to my daughter, so I’ll just be a professor here.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.219 From “A Professor Like a Mother”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The \"grandmother hypothesis,\" which suggests that women live long after menopause because they can contribute to the survival and prosperity of their descendants by helping to raise their grandchildren without having to give birth themselves, leaves room for evolutionary success even after reproductive function ends. \u003cbr\u003eWomen who have experienced menopause tend to live much healthier lives than men of the same age, and their physical functions other than reproductive function age later than men.\u003cbr\u003e This was the orthodoxy taught by anthropology and biology, and I taught it as well.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.241 From “The Wan-gyeong and Grandmother Hypothesis”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe human species called 'I' discovered by anthropologist Lee Sang-hee\u003cbr\u003e Evolution from a vast human race to a small individual\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lee Sang-hee, a girl who dreamed of becoming a pianist during her school days, but her dream was dashed by a slump just before the college entrance exam, becomes an undergraduate majoring in archaeology and art history.\u003cbr\u003e While taking college classes, he became fascinated by the science of archaeology, neo-archaeology, which was just beginning to emerge in the United States at the time. He was reborn from a humanities student to a graduate student studying paleoanthropology, a sub-field of biological anthropology, and thus from a liberal arts student to a science student. \u003cbr\u003eGrowing up as the eldest daughter in an extremely conservative family in the 1970s and 1980s, she left for the vast ocean of the United States as soon as she graduated from college and became a researcher on Asian women and a tenured professor at an American university.\u003cbr\u003e It is impossible for the path of life to have been smooth, having to live with countless different identities, including humanity, human, scholar, woman, Asian, professor, daughter, wife, mother, and even dog owner (!).\u003cbr\u003e It is truly astonishing how a scholar who has traced the history of mankind for millions of years looks back on his own life, which seems like a fleeting moment compared to the history of mankind, and realizes that even within it lies the history of human evolution, and that humans are beings who somehow move forward.\u003cbr\u003e Let's walk together along the winding path of an anthropologist who, despite living a life of intense struggle, never lost sight of learning, reflection, leisure, and humor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomething that cannot be felt in fossils from tens of thousands of years ago\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe small yet vivid sense of being alive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Professor Lee Sang-hee is a tenured professor of anthropology at the University of Riverside in California, USA.\u003cbr\u003e He received his Ph.D. in paleoanthropology from the University of Michigan in the United States, and attracted academic attention with his theses on topics such as ‘Evolution of Old Age’ and ‘Sexual Differences in Human Evolution.’\u003cbr\u003e In 2018, he was appointed a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, an organization representing the American science and technology community that annually selects scientists who have led the development and revival of science and have made outstanding social and scientific progress as fellows), and in the same year, he was awarded the Howells Award for the publication of the English version of “Close Encounters with Humankind” and in 2025, he was awarded the American Society for Biological Anthropology’s Distinguished Service Award, making him a true global leader in paleoanthropology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e However, he did not dream of becoming a paleoanthropologist from the beginning. \u003cbr\u003eThe dream of this tomboyish college student, who grew up being scolded for being unladylike throughout her childhood, was simply independence.\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to escape from the stuffy house that was like the Joseon Dynasty.\u003cbr\u003e But in the 1980s, marriage was the only reason for a grown woman to leave home.\u003cbr\u003e I didn't want to just sit still and wait for my in-laws to get married and move out.\u003cbr\u003e I wanted to become an independent person with full economic power.\u003cbr\u003e Luckily, I got the opportunity to receive a scholarship from the Education Foundation and went to study abroad in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e As I was an undergraduate majoring in archaeology at university, I didn't really know what paleoanthropology was until then.\u003cbr\u003e Of course, the graduate school life in the United States that I faced was not easy.\u003cbr\u003e Having lived as a liberal arts student for over 20 years, the world of paleoanthropology, which requires knowledge of physiology, physics, statistics, and medicine, was painfully deep and wide. \u003cbr\u003eHe gradually transforms into a paleoanthropologist, dissecting cadavers in anatomy classes with medical students and staying up late at night in a lab filled with thousands of skeletons, battling his instinctive fear of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There was a time when it was common knowledge that human evolution followed a stepwise model.\u003cbr\u003e The linear evolution from monkey-like ancestors to modern humans, with the chimpanzee walking hunched over on the far left, gradually straightening his back and walking forward, following the arrow pointing to the right, is a textbook illustration that has been strongly imprinted in people's minds.\u003cbr\u003e However, soon, a theory emerged in the academic world that it followed a phylogenetic evolutionary model in which multiple branches branched out from a single root and a large tree trunk, and then a theory that it was a model in which the branches meandered like a river and continued to meet and part ways to advance into the great ocean became more prevalent. \u003cbr\u003eProfessor Lee Sang-hee, reflecting on his life so far, realized that human life does not develop in a linear fashion, but rather moves forward while bumping into things, wandering, and falling down many times. In other words, the trajectory of human evolution and human life are not very different.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn search of the first traces left by ancient humans\u003cbr\u003e Take the first step on a new path\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author has not only lived as a scholar, but also as a foreigner in the vast and unfamiliar country of America.\u003cbr\u003e In Korea, where I was born and raised, I had to repeatedly reexamine my race, gender, and class, which I had not been particularly aware of or had deliberately tried to ignore. \u003cbr\u003eIt was definitely not easy to protect myself while facing people who couldn't pronounce or write my own name properly, neighbors who looked at me with innocent expressions and gave me the \"slit-eye\" gesture (a gesture that is used to slit the eyes, a derogatory term for Asians), fellow faculty members who took white male professors in jeans for granted but mistook me for a campus janitor if I wore slightly more comfortable clothes, and students who confidently demanded that I be treated \"like a mother\".\u003cbr\u003e Yet he never gave up.\u003cbr\u003e Sometimes he embraced his life and people with understanding and tolerance, sometimes with sharp criticism and sincere encouragement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When he first started his career as a professor, it was difficult to find even female professors around him, let alone professors who were raising children. \u003cbr\u003eHowever, despite the unfamiliar gazes of those around her and the excruciating pain of childbirth and childcare, she never gave up on her research and lectures, and overcame the crisis by following the faint light left behind by the few female colleagues who had paved the way before her.\u003cbr\u003e Professor Lee Sang-hee, through her strong solidarity with her female colleagues living in the same era, simultaneously dispels the prejudices and misunderstandings attached to \"older women,\" thereby opening a new path for minority women in academia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His steps, tracing the first traces left by our ancestors millions of years ago and forging a new path in paleoanthropology, cannot be accidental.\u003cbr\u003e With his characteristic boldness, he constantly discovered new eras of humanity, scholarship, and femininity.\u003cbr\u003e Let's follow the path pioneered by Professor Lee Sang-hee through \"A Trivial Humanity,\" which contains that fascinating journey. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n \u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260 pages | 362g | 140*200*15mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9791173323690 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43893399519274,"sku":"135158","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/9f42e25439d141180c29c729182ce2df.jpg?v=1765400300","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/135158","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}