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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-11-14
The Warrior Herdsmen written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-14 with Social Science categories.
The Dodoth—a tall, handsome people of the northern tip of Uganda—are a tribe in transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes learn to read and write and have brushed against the modern world. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas accompanied three anthropological expeditions to Africa and lived among the Dodoth. She displays a remarkable ability to communicate with the tribespeople and describe their lives and customs.
Warrior Herdsmen
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1972-01-01
Warrior Herdsmen written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972-01-01 with Africa, East categories.
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Warrior Herdsmen written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with TRAVEL categories.
The Harmless People
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-11-24
The Harmless People written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Social Science categories.
“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
The Old Way
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2003-01-03
The Old Way written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-03 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Animal Wife
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2012-09-24
The Animal Wife written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-24 with Fiction categories.
Set in prehistoric Siberia, a “psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative” novel by a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In this novel by the author of Reindeer Moon, set in the Paleolithic age, Kori lives among his hunter-gatherer people, guilty with the knowledge that his unborn child is being carried by his shaman father’s new wife. Then, Kori impulsively seizes another woman, from a different tribe, after seeing her swimming in a pond—putting his group in danger. He calls the woman Muskrat, and her customs, beliefs, and language are utterly alien to him. And their relationship may bring either joy or bloodshed . . . From an author and anthropologist known for both her fiction and her nonfiction—including the bestsellers The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Tribe of Tiger—this is a compelling tale “likely to appeal to Clan of the Cave Bear fans” (Library Journal).
The Tribe Of Tiger
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-06
The Tribe Of Tiger written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06 with Pets categories.
The author who revealed the secret lives of dogs in the best-selling The Hidden Life of Dogs offers a journey into the hidden life of cats and reports that cats, surprisingly, are not solitary beings. Reissue.
The State
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Author : Franz Oppenheimer
language : en
Publisher: Perennial Press
Release Date : 2018-03-04
The State written by Franz Oppenheimer and has been published by Perennial Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-04 with Philosophy categories.
The organic history of the State is a long and exciting adventure, usually rendered dull in learned accounts. Not so in Oppenheimer's "The State" which extracts that history, in a highly stimulating manner, from the sharp necessities and homicidal conflicts of all sorts and conditions of men, from the Stone Age to the Age of Henry Ford...
Reindeer Moon
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Author : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Reindeer Moon written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Fiction categories.
“A whole culture is imaginatively and authoritatively illuminated” in this “suspenseful, insightful, poignant” novel of prehistoric times (Publishers Weekly). Twenty thousand years ago, a courageous girl lived in Siberia near Woman Lake, a place you won’t find on any modern map. Only thirteen, Yanan and her companions—hunters of deer, gatherers of roots and twigs—struggle to survive the harsh realities of hunger and cold, bound by an unending cycle of birth, kinship, violence, and death. As Yanan recounts the terrible adventures of her brief life, she departs on spirit journeys that evoke the lives of the animals to which she and her people are intimately linked. A lyrical novel of our species’ prehistory, Reindeer Moon opens up corridors to the imagination that lead us back to the long-forgotten echoes of our distant human past. “Unforgettable . . . Reindeer Moon beautifully resurrects a lost world of merciless magnificence. Dozens of memorable characters live and die in this moving tale, which should become a classic.” —Chicago Tribune Book World “Those familiar with the author’s landmark study, The Harmless People, will not be surprised at the range of anthropological information she brings to her first novel, or at the lucidity of her prose. What will astonish, engross and move readers in her narrative of a group of hunter-gatherers who lived 20,000 years ago is the dramatic immediacy of the story and the depth and range of character development.” —Publishers Weekly
The Vitality Of Karamojong Religion
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Author : Ben Knighton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
The Vitality Of Karamojong Religion written by Ben Knighton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Religion categories.
How long can a traditional religion survive the impact of world religions, state hegemony, and globalization? The ’Karamoja problem’ is one that has perplexed colonial and independent governments alike. Now Karamojong notoriety for armed cattle raiding has attracted the attention of the UN and USAID since the proliferation of small arms in the pastoralist belt across Africa from Sudan to stateless Somalia is deemed a threat to world security. The consequences are ethnocidal, but what makes African peoples stand out against state and global governance? The traditional African religion of the Karamojong, despite the multiple external influences of the twentieth century and earlier, has remained at the heart of their culture as it has changed through time. Drawing on oral accounts and the language itself, as well as his extensive experience of living and working in the region, Knighton avoids Western perspectivism to highlight the successful reassertion of African beliefs and values over repeated attempts by interventionists to replace or subvert them. Knighton argues that the religious aspect of Karamojong culture, with its persistent faith dimension, is one of the key factors that have enabled them to maintain their amazing degree of religious, political, and military autonomy in the postmodern world. Using historical and anthropological approaches, the real continuities within the culture and the reasons for mysterious vitality of Karamojong religion are explored.