Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Harmless People
- ISBN 13:
- 9780679724469
- author:
- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Random House USA INC International Concepts
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1989
- Pages:
- 336
- Genre:
- Anthropology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's groundbreaking study of the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert offers a unique glimpse into a way of life that has remained largely unchanged for thousands of years. Her account, based on extensive fieldwork in the 1950s and updated with new insights from the 1980s, is both a powerful tribute to an endangered culture and a thought-provoking critique of our own. Thomas's novelistic grasp of character and her simple yet precise style make this book a model of exposition. She conveys the strangeness of desert life in a way that reveals human traits as familiar as our own, while also shedding light on the challenges faced by a people who must make their world out of next to nothing. A powerful and elegiac work, The Harmless People is a fascinating exploration of the impact of industrial civilization on traditional societies.
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