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The Other Side of Eden: Hunter-gatherers, Farmers and the Shaping of the World Book

In the 1970s acclaimed British writer Hugh Brody (Maps and Dreams), spent several years studying the native hunter-gatherer tribes of Canada. In 1997 he joined an institute dedicated to the San Bushmen, the last true hunter-gatherers in Africa. In between he has visited virtually every region on earth inhabited by so-called primitive man.As a result, few could be better qualified then Brody to write a book about the origins, history and future of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. And, yes, the book is a fund of knowledge about these intriguing peoples: Brody moves from the Saami of Finland to the Australian Aborigines to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic, comparing and contrasting their allegedly archaic languages and social systems, and wondering where and how they lost out to the farmer who came after.But what ennobles this book, what makes it more than a worthy, interesting anthropological tract, is Brody's prose style. His lush descriptions of landscape and skilful and sometimes lyrical interweaving of personal experience with history, myth and futurology, leave one with a far profounder concern for the destiny of these precious but endangered societies than 10,000 pages of the most scandalised agitprop. --Sean ThomasRead More

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  • Amazon

    In this account of hunter/gatherer culture gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the salmon-fishing tribes in the Canadian Northwest, the author reaches through everyday realities to reflect on the human condition.

  • Foyles

    Hugh Brody has an international reputation as an anthropologist and documentary film-maker of the Inuit peoples. This book is a marvellous account of hunter-gatherer culture, gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the salmon-fishing tribes in the Canadian Northwest. Brody explores the frontiers between hunters and farmers, and shows us how the encounter between radically different ways of being in the world is at the core of human history. He travels through exquisite landscapes of ice and snow, with people who know the land as part of their selves. Posing the question, 'Why did the farmer triumph over the hunter-gatherer?', Brody finds answers in a variety of places, among them the Book of Genesis, the great creation myth at the centre of the agriculturalist view of the world. This is a book that invites the reader to embark on a series of expeditions, into the territories of hunter-gatherers, and into radical ideas about what it means to be human in the present, and what it could mean in the future.

  • BookDepository

    The Other Side of Eden : Paperback : Faber & Faber : 9780571205028 : 057120502X : 04 Mar 2002 : In this account of hunter/gatherer culture gleaned from years of living and hunting with the Inuits of the Arctic and the salmon-fishing tribes in the Canadian Northwest, the author reaches through everyday realities to reflect on the human condition.

  • 057120502X
  • 9780571205028
  • Hugh Brody
  • 4 March 2002
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
  • New edition
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