Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND and HOMO DEUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROWWASHINGTON POST`S 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION IN 2017AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2017A 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.

Related Products:

Affluence Without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World`s Most Successful Civilisation The Lost World of the Kalahari Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World A Short History of the World According to Sheep Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda A Wild Life: My Adventures Around the World Filming Wildlife Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World Island: How Islands Transform the World Red Nile: The Biography of the World`s Greatest River Supercontinent: 10 Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet The Abundance World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age The Bushman winter has come Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History The Fear and the Freedom: Why the Second World War Still Matters The Foghorn`s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast On this Day: A History of the World in 366 Days Life Through Time: The 700-Million-Year Story of Life on Earth Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave The Forest People The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth: A Lost World of Air Travel and Africa The Infographic History Of The World The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World The What on Earth? Stickerbook of Big History A History Of The World In 100 Objects The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and Wonder Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets The Pink Line: The World`s Queer Frontiers The Innocent Anthropologist While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World`s Favorite Beverage Born In Africa The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World Contested Lands – A History of the Middle East since the First World War History of the World in 100 Animals