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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

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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 the years, then the Bushmen of the Kalahari are by far essentially the most successful in human history. A hunting and gathering individuals who made a good living by working only up to needed to exist in harmony with their hostile desert environment, the Bushmen have lived in southern Africa because 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 up to date global economy and the oldest hunting and gathering society on the planet. In rendering an intimate picture of a people dealing with radical change, it asks profound questions about how we now take into accounts matters such as work, wealth, equality, contentment, and even time. Not since Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s The Harmless People in 1959 has somebody 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.

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