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Old Way : A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374225524
ISBN-139780374225520
eBay Product ID (ePID)52409711
Product Key Features
Book TitleOld Way : a Story of the First People
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicHunting, Personal Memoirs, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorElizabeth Marshall Thomas
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight23.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-002668
Reviews"In 1950, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' father, the retired president of Raytheon, together with his wife, a former English teacher, and their two teenage children went out to live among some of the last people in the world still living as nomadic hunter-gatherers. It would be a coming of age like no other, with stunning and unforeseen rewards for the field of Anthropology. Her mother, Lorne Marshall, would write" The !Kung of Nyae Nyae," one of the great ethnographies of all time; her brother John made a series of films culminating (just before he died) in the epic" Kalahari Family," chronicling the fate of the !Kung through early contacts and discovery of their remarkable way of life, to their tragic displacement from the lands that had sustained them for so many thousands of year. Elizabeth herself, an extraordinarily gifted writer went on to write a number of best-selling books. Now, half a century later, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas returns to those early experiences and re-examines what she learned from the people, places, animals and lifeways encountered in the Kalahari long ago. The result is a brilliantly conceived, wise and hauntingly vivid, portrait of the natural and social worlds inhabited by people living much as our earliest human ancestors must have. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' finest book to date," The Old Way," is a deeply felt, deeply observed masterpiece that" "transforms the way we look at our own world." --Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of" Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection""" "This is the owner's manual we need for humankind. THE OLD WAY gives us critical insight into our past at a turning point in human history by one of the few peoplewho has seen our kind living as we have lived for most of our species' existence. This will be one of the most important books of the millennium." --Sy Montgomery, author of "The Snake Scientist "and "The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans" Praise for "The Harmless People": "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." --"The New York Times Book Review" "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." --"The Atlantic" Praise for "The Hidden Life of Dogs": "Popular science of the highest order: revelatory, impeccably observed, and a joy to read. A four-woof salute to Thomas and a vigorous tail-wag to boot." --"Kirkus Reviews", "In 1950, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' father, the retired president of Raytheon, together with his wife, a former English teacher, and their two teenage children went out to live among some of the last people in the world still living as nomadic hunter-gatherers. It would be a coming of age like no other, with stunning and unforeseen rewards for the field of Anthropology. Her mother, Lorne Marshall, would writeThe !Kung of Nyae Nyae, one of the great ethnographies of all time; her brother John made a series of films culminating (just before he died) in the epicKalahari Family, chronicling the fate of the !Kung through early contacts and discovery of their remarkable way of life, to their tragic displacement from the lands that had sustained them for so many thousands of year. Elizabeth herself, an extraordinarily gifted writer went on to write a number of best-selling books. Now, half a century later, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas returns to those early experiences and re-examines what she learned from the people, places, animals and lifeways encountered in the Kalahari long ago.The result is a brilliantly conceived, wise and hauntingly vivid, portrait of the natural and social worlds inhabited by people living much as our earliest human ancestors must have. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas' finest book to date,The Old Way,is a deeply felt, deeply observed masterpiece thattransforms the way we look at our own world." --Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author ofMother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection "This is the owner's manual we need for humankind. THE OLD WAY gives us critical insight into our past at a turning point in human history by one of the few people who has seen our kind living as we have lived for most of our species' existence. This will be one of the most important books of the millennium." --Sy Montgomery, author ofThe Snake ScientistandThe Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans Praise forThe Harmless People: "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -The New York Times Book Review "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." -The Atlantic Praise forThe Hidden Life of Dogs: "Popular science of the highest order: revelatory, impeccably observed, and a joy to read. A four-woof salute to Thomas and a vigorous tail-wag to boot." -Kirkus Reviews, "This is the owner's manual we need for humankind. THE OLD WAY gives us critical insight into our past at a turning point in human history by one of the few people who has seen our kind living as we have lived for most of our species' existence. This will be one of the most important books of the millennium." --Sy Montgomery, author of "The Snake Scientist "and "The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans" Praise for "The Harmless People": "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." --"The New York Times Book Review" "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." --"The Atlantic" Praise for "The Hidden Life of Dogs": "Popular science of the highest order: revelatory, impeccably observed, and a joy to read. A four-woof salute to Thomas and a vigorous tail-wag to boot." --"Kirkus Reviews", "This is the owner's manual we need for humankind. THE OLD WAY gives us critical insight into our past at a turning point in human history by one of the few people who has seen our kind living as we have lived for most of our species' existence. This will be one of the most important books of the millennium." --Sy Montgomery, author ofThe Snake ScientistandThe Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans Praise forThe Harmless People: "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -The New York Times Book Review "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." -The Atlantic Praise forThe Hidden Life of Dogs: "Popular science of the highest order: revelatory, impeccably observed, and a joy to read. A four-woof salute to Thomas and a vigorous tail-wag to boot." -Kirkus Reviews, Praise for "The Harmless People: "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." --"The New York Times Book Review "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." --"The Atlantic Praise for "The Hidden Life of Dogs: "Popular science of the highest order: revelatory, impeccably observed, and a joy to read. A four-woof salute to Thomas and a vigorous tail-wag to boot." --"Kirkus Reviews, Praise for The Harmless People: "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -The New York Times Book Review "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own....The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." -The Atlantic Praise for The Hidden Life of Dogs: "Popular science of the highest order: revelatory, impeccably observed, and a joy to read. A four-woof salute to Thomas and a vigorous tail-wag to boot." -Kirkus Reviews
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SynopsisOne 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., One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know it When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work,The Harmless People(1959). It has never gone out of print. Back then, this was uncharted territory and little was known about our human origins. Today, our beginnings are better understood. And after a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution. As she displayed in her bestseller,The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas has a rare gift for giving voice to the voices we don't usually listen to, and helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. InThe Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is "knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas vividly brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom. The Old Wayis a rare and remarkable achievement, sure to stir up controversy, and worthy of celebration. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is the author of seven books, nonfiction and fiction-among themThe Hidden Life of Dogs, The Harmless People, andReindeer Moon. She has written forThe New Yorker,National Geographic, andThe Atlantic, and lives in New Hampshire. When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for fifteen thousand centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work,The Harmless People(1959), a book that is still in print. The history of mankind that most of us know is only the tip of the iceberg, a brief stint compared to fifteen thousand centuries of life as roving clans that seldom settled down adapted every day to changes in environment and food supply, and lived for the most part like the animal ancestors from which they evolved. Those origins are not so easily abandoned, Thomas suggests, and our wired, documented, and market-driven society has plenty to learn from the Bushmen of the Kalahari about human evolution. As she displayed in The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. InThe Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is "knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom. "Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . .The Old Wayis not only a timely work, but also a timeless one-a last look back before we decide how to go forward."-Alexandra Fuller,The New York Times Book Review "Heartbreaking and gorgeously observed . . .The Old Wayis not only a timely work, but also a timeless one-a last look back before we decide how to go forward."-Alexandra Fuller,The New York Times Book Review "It is fascinating to see how Thomas has honed her observational powers over the year . . . a, "One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-- and the roots of life as we know it""" When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, "The Harmless People "(1959). It has never gone out of print. Back then, this was uncharted territory and little was known about our human origins. Today, our beginnings are better understood. And after a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution. As she displayed in her bestseller, "The Hidden Life of Dogs," Thomas has a rare gift for giving voice to the voices we don't usually listen to, and helps us see the path that we have taken in our human journey. In "The Old Way," she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors. And since it is " knowledge, not objects, that endure" over time, Thomas vividly brings us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom. """The Old Way "is a rare and remarkable achievement, sure to stir up controversy, and worthy of celebration.
LC Classification NumberDT1558.S38T46 2006
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