0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology

Not currently available

Affluence Without Abundance - The Disappearing World of the Bushmen (Hardcover) Loot Price: R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
You Save: R58 (10%)
Affluence Without Abundance - The Disappearing World of the Bushmen (Hardcover): James Suzman

Affluence Without Abundance - The Disappearing World of the Bushmen (Hardcover)

James Suzman

 (1 rating, sign in to rate)
List price R596 Loot Price R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 You Save R58 (10%)

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

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.

General

Imprint: Bloomsbury USA
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2017
Authors: James Suzman
Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-63286-572-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Promotions
LSN: 1-63286-572-6
Barcode: 9781632865724

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Rich Pickings Out Of The Past
Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe Paperback  (1)
R373 Discovery Miles 3 730
Afrikaner Identity - Dysfunction And…
Yves Vanderhaeghen Paperback R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590
Sapiens - A Brief History Of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari Paperback  (4)
R345 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180
First People - The Lost History Of The…
Andrew Smith Paperback  (1)
R280 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500
The Politics Of Custom - Chiefship…
John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff Paperback R420 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family…
J D Vance Paperback  (1)
R330 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950
The Man Who Shook Mountains - In The…
Lesley Mofokeng Paperback R295 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640
Wounded City - Violent Turf Wars in a…
Vargas Hardcover R3,957 Discovery Miles 39 570
Embers Of The Hands - Hidden Histories…
Eleanor Barraclough Paperback R385 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440
Maya Pilgrimage to Ritual Landscapes…
Joel W Palka Hardcover R3,322 Discovery Miles 33 220
English-isiZulu glossary of…
Franco Frescura, Joyce Myeza Paperback R160 R148 Discovery Miles 1 480
Concrete Jungles - Urban Pollution and…
Jaffe Hardcover R3,373 Discovery Miles 33 730

See more

Partners