Affluence without abundance : the disappearing world of the Bushmen / James Suzman.
Suzman, James, author.
2017
DT1058.S36 S89 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Affluence without abundance : the disappearing world of the Bushmen / James Suzman.
Author Suzman, James, author.
ISBN 9781632865724 (hardcover)
1632865726 (hardcover)
9781632865748 (electronic book)
1632865742 (electronic book)
Published New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2017.
Language English
Description xii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number DT1058.S36 S89 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 968.004961
Summary "A vibrant portrait of the "original affluent society"--the Bushmen of southern Africa--by the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity. If the success of a civilization is measured by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen of the Kalahari are by far the most successful in human history. A hunting and gathering people who made a good living by working only as much as needed to exist in harmony with their hostile desert environment, the Bushmen have lived in southern Africa since the evolution of our species nearly two hundred thousand years ago. In Affluence Without Abundance, anthropologist James Suzman vividly brings to life a proud and private people, introducing unforgettable members of their tribe, and telling the story of the collision between the modern global economy and the oldest hunting and gathering society on earth. In rendering an intimate picture of a people coping with radical change, it asks profound questions about how we now think about matters such as work, wealth, equality, contentment, and even time. Not since Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's The Harmless People in 1959 has anyone provided a more intimate or insightful account of the Bushmen or of what we might learn about ourselves from our shared history as hunter-gatherers."--Jacket flap.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
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Part one: Old times
The rewards of hard work
The mother hill
A beachside brawl
The settlers
Living in the moment
Tsumkwe Road
Part two: The provident environment
the hollow tree
Strong food
An elephant hunt
Pinnacle Point
A gift from God
Hunting and empathy
Insulting the meat
Part three: New times
When lions become dangerous
Fear and farming
Cattle country
Crazy gods
The promised land.

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