Affluence without abundance : what we can learn from the world's most successful civilisation

Resource Information

The work Affluence without abundance : what we can learn from the world's most successful civilisation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Westminster Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Affluence without abundance : what we can learn from the world's most successful civilisation

Title remainder

what we can learn from the world's most successful civilisation

Statement of responsibility

James Suzman

Creator

• Suzman, James

Subject

• San (African people)
• Society

Language

eng

Summary

A vibrant portrait of the 'original affluent society' - the Bushmen of southern Africa - by the anthropologist who has spent the better part 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 asks whether understanding how hunter-gatherers like the Bushmen found contentment by having few needs easily met might help us address some of the environmental and economic challenges we face today

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 305.8'961'068
• 305.8'961'068
• 305.8961068

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction