About this title: One of the world's most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots--and the roots of life as revealed in human evolution.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374225520ISBN:0374225524
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Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN-13:9780312427283ISBN:031242728X
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Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780312427283ISBN:031242728X
Description: Good. Good; trade paperback, illustrated wraps with one crease at bottom fr of wrap, some pp. creased at top corner, text block clean. Study of the Bushmen of the Kalahari by a woman who lived among them more than 50 years ago. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780374225520ISBN:0374225524
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A classic study of the Kalahari San, or Bushmen, a hunting and gathering society living as humans had for fifteen thousand centuries. Cream-color boards with gold-color lettering on spine, photos, illustrated jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Mild wear at ends of spine, no names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Picador USA
Date Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN-13:9780312427283ISBN:031242728X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780312427283ISBN:031242728X
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Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket shows light edge wear. Clean and unmarked inside, tightly bound. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 343 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I mostly liked the book for the fascinating stories of the African tribespeople. It is amazing how innovative and creative they have been while living in the wild with no education and little contact with the outside world for so long. It's a shame so much of their (and other native people's) knowledge is being lost. The thing that irked me about the book was the author's kind of pretentious tone (could have just been me though)."
"I am enjoying the writing of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, as insightful, good writing, and often humorous. In this book, she tells the story of how at the age of 19, her family went to live in the Kalahari, with the Bushmen. They were observers; they didn't exactly share the life, but they did live side by side. She goes through different categories as she shows what their lives were like and their values, such as gender roles. She contends that these are the original people on the planet; these are the people from whom we are all descended. So it's fascinating to me to learn about their ways of living communally (of course,) how they got food, how they dealt with animals big and small, marriage conventions,what their spirituality was, etc. A big point in the book was about their strong ethic of sharing and how that increased the chances of survival for everyone. The conditions were what we might consider extreme: hiking 6 miles to dig up some roots for dinner; tracking and killing big game for days. Basically living outside, in vast swaths of desert, and surviving, and passing on the knowledge from generation to generation. She also talks about their extraordinary powers of observation. I recommend this to anyone who's curious about how other cultures live."
"I happened upon this the other day while shelving at the bookstore. It seemed like it would make a good follow-up to "The Ohlone Way", which I read recently. It's a beautifully written account of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Thomas first went to the Kalahari in 1950 at age 19 when her father, a former president of Raytheon, took his family there to study the hunter-gatherer society of the indigenous people. The author's mother became a respected anthropologist and expert on the !Kung Bushmen; her brother became an anthroplogist, activist and film-maker. The author herself published an early (1959) book on the !Kung, (The Harmless People) and later wrote several other books, both fiction and nonfiction, including the best-selling "The Hidden Life of Dogs" and "The Tribe of Tiger". She published the present work in 2006. It reflects her return visit to the Bushmen in the 1980's, the dramatic changes in their situation down to the present, and the author's life-long connection with them. Reading it side by side with "The Ohlone Way", I was struck by the many parallels between the hunter-gatherer cultures described in the two books. The two eco-systems were quite different (most notably with respect to the availability of water), and these differences were reflected in the people's way of life. But the requirements of the hunter-gatherer way were broadly similar in the two places. I suspect that there would have been greater understanding between an Ohlone of 1760 and a !Kung Bushman of 1950 than there was between either of them and the modern westerners who came to see them in those years. Both books end sadly: the way of life of a people we have come to admire has ended. In each case, though, the people (some of them at least) are still around. The reader of Thomas's book can help. She is giving proceeds from the book to two organizations that are trying to mitigate the effects of the wrenching change of recent decades on the people. (see page 315.)"
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