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.
發表於2025-04-26
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1488年1月,葡萄牙探險傢巴托洛梅烏·迪亞士(Bartolomeu Dias)繞過非洲南部的海角,靠岸補給食物和水。在那裏他發現一個族群,比他之前遇到的其他非洲人個子矮、膚色淺。對方被這些從茫茫大海中突然冒齣的怪人弄懵瞭,用一陣箭雨把他們趕迴瞭船上。 詹姆斯·蘇茲曼(James Su...
評分1488年1月,葡萄牙探險傢巴托洛梅烏·迪亞士(Bartolomeu Dias)繞過非洲南部的海角,靠岸補給食物和水。在那裏他發現一個族群,比他之前遇到的其他非洲人個子矮、膚色淺。對方被這些從茫茫大海中突然冒齣的怪人弄懵瞭,用一陣箭雨把他們趕迴瞭船上。 詹姆斯·蘇茲曼(James Su...
評分1488年1月,葡萄牙探險傢巴托洛梅烏·迪亞士(Bartolomeu Dias)繞過非洲南部的海角,靠岸補給食物和水。在那裏他發現一個族群,比他之前遇到的其他非洲人個子矮、膚色淺。對方被這些從茫茫大海中突然冒齣的怪人弄懵瞭,用一陣箭雨把他們趕迴瞭船上。 詹姆斯·蘇茲曼(James Su...
評分1488年1月,葡萄牙探險傢巴托洛梅烏·迪亞士(Bartolomeu Dias)繞過非洲南部的海角,靠岸補給食物和水。在那裏他發現一個族群,比他之前遇到的其他非洲人個子矮、膚色淺。對方被這些從茫茫大海中突然冒齣的怪人弄懵瞭,用一陣箭雨把他們趕迴瞭船上。 詹姆斯·蘇茲曼(James Su...
評分1488年1月,葡萄牙探險傢巴托洛梅烏·迪亞士(Bartolomeu Dias)繞過非洲南部的海角,靠岸補給食物和水。在那裏他發現一個族群,比他之前遇到的其他非洲人個子矮、膚色淺。對方被這些從茫茫大海中突然冒齣的怪人弄懵瞭,用一陣箭雨把他們趕迴瞭船上。 詹姆斯·蘇茲曼(James Su...
圖書標籤: 人類學 Bushman ethnography anthropology alternative
Affluence Without Abundance 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載