{"product_id":"the-future-has-an-ancient-lucia-chiavola-birnbaum-9781475932614","title":"The Future Has an Ancient Heart: Legacy of Caring, Sharing, Healing, and Vision from the Primordial African Mediterranean to Occupy Everywhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeminist cultural historian Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum caps her previous work with \u003ci\u003eThe Future has an Ancient Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, a scholarly study of the transformative legacy of African origins and values of caring, sharing, healing, and vision carried by African migrants throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBirnbaum focuses on the long endurance of these values from the first human communities in south and central Africa, ones that Africans manifested in the region of the African mediterranean landmass that later separated Africa from Europe and Asia when the ice melted and waters rose. These migrants reached every continent and later became spiritual as well as geograpical migrations back to Africa, from ancient times to the transformative present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing the same methods as her teaching, Birnbaum employs a mutual learning process in her work to help us think about our own ancestral story, adding to the wisdom we need to surmount contemporary crises and give us the energy to help bring a more equal and just world into being. Her methodologies are grounded on empirical techniques of science and the social sciences and yet leave openings for the liminal knowledge that resides underneath and beyond boundaries of established religions, secular ideologies, and conventional science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA true work of transformation, \u003ci\u003eThe Future has an Ancient Heart\u003c\/i\u003e opens the door to new possibilities within our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475932618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475932614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48442275234047,"sku":"9781475932614","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a80e32f1-87c2-4063-a926-340fd7d7804b.jpg?v=1777196297","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-future-has-an-ancient-lucia-chiavola-birnbaum-9781475932614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}