Affluence Without Abundance - What We Can Learn From the World's Most Successful Civilisation

'Insightful' YUVAL NOAH HARARI 'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES 'Elegant and absorbing' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Profoundly moving' IRISH TIMES What can we learn from the Bushmen? If the success of a civilisation is measured by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen of the Kalahari are by far the most successful in human history. Anthropologist James Suzman spent twenty-five years in Southern Africa documenting their way of life and encounters with modern society, gathering invaluable lessons about work, wealth, happiness, equality and time.

Product details

• Authors: James Suzman
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781526609311
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-0931-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Southern Africa, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology