Affluence without Abundance
Affluence without Abundance "Insightful and well-written . . . 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…
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Affluence without Abundance
"Insightful and well-written . . . 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 Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth." -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS and HOMO DEUSAn NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable BookA 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.