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Harmless People, Paperback by Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, ISBN 067972446X, ISBN-13 9780679724469, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An account of an expedition into the Kalahari Desert to study the way of life of the mysterious African Bushmen

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10067972446X

ISBN-139780679724469

eBay Product ID (ePID)2309914473

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleHarmless People

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEcosystems & Habitats / Deserts, Africa / South / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Essays

Publication Year1989

FeaturesRevised

GenreNature, Social Science, History

AuthorElizabeth Marshall Thomas

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN89-040157

Dewey Edition18

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal916.81

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Synopsis"A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match." - The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization-with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol-swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "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, "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization--with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol--swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "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

LC Classification NumberDT764.B8T4 1989