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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Suzman, James.     Subjects     San (African people).     !Kung (African people) -- Namibia -- History.     !Kung (African people) -- Social conditions.     !Kung (African people) -- Cultural assimilation.     Subsistence economy -- Namibia.     South Africa -- History.     Namibia -- Race relations.     Nyae Nyae (Namibia) -- Social conditions.     Omaheke (Namibia) -- Social conditions.     Blacks -- Namibia -- Social conditions.     Namibia -- Economic conditions.     Namibia -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Suzman, James.       by title:      Affluence without ab...       by call number:      968.00496 S968a     Search the Web     Suzman, James.     San (African people).     !Kung (African people) -- Namibia -- History.     !Kung (African people) -- Social conditions.     !Kung (African people) -- Cultural assimilation.     Subsistence economy -- Namibia.     South Africa -- History.     Namibia -- Race relations.     Nyae Nyae (Namibia) -- Social conditions.     Omaheke (Namibia) -- Social conditions.     Blacks -- Namibia -- Social conditions.     Namibia -- Economic conditions.     Namibia -- Social conditions.       MARC Display

Affluence without abundance : the disappearing world of the bushmen / James Suzman. by Suzman, James. Bloomsbury, 2017. Call #: 968.00496 S968a Subjects San (African people).   !Kung (African people) -- Namibia -- History.   !Kung (African people) -- Social conditions.   !Kung (African people) -- Cultural assimilation.   Subsistence economy -- Namibia.   South Africa -- History.   Namibia -- Race relations.   Nyae Nyae (Namibia) -- Social conditions.   Omaheke (Namibia) -- Social conditions.   Blacks -- Namibia -- Social conditions.   Namibia -- Economic conditions.   Namibia -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9781632865724 (hc.) Description:  xii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index. Contents:  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. 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. Anthropologist James Suzman 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. James Suzman, Ph.D., is an anthropologist specializing in the Khoisan peoples of southern Africa. He lives in Cambridge, England."--Provided by publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 968.00496 S968a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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