{"product_id":"affluence-without-abundance-james-suzman-9781526609311","title":"Affluence Without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World's Most Successful Civilisation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.\"\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cb\u003eYuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS and HOMO DEUS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eNPR \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vibrant portrait of the \"original affluent society\"\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003ethe Bushmen of southern Africa\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003eby the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAffluence Without Abundance\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Harmless People\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Suzman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526609312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526609311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d","brand":"James Suzman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135367037183,"sku":"9781526609311","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1123d93-6ce3-40b1-b443-268561661913.jpg?v=1755009934","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/affluence-without-abundance-james-suzman-9781526609311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}