The Old Way: A Story of the First People
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
ISBN 10: 0374225524 ISBN 13: 9780374225520
Editorial: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006
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Sinopsis:
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.
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is author of seven books, fiction and non-fiction—among them The Hidden Life of Dogs, The Harmless People, and Reindeer Moon. She has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The Atlantic Monthly, and lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is the author of seven books, nonfiction and fiction —among themThe Hidden Life of Dogs, The Harmless People, and Reindeer Moon. She’s written forThe New Yorker, National Geographic, and The Atlantic, and lives in New Hampshire.
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Título: The Old Way: A Story of the First People
Editorial: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Año de publicación: 2006
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Condición: Good
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