Harmless People

Name: Harmless People
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ISBN: 9780679724469

ISBN-10: 067972446X

ISBN-13: 9780679724469

Edition: 2nd (Revised)

Authors: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/23/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Gray grew up on a farm near York, Nebraska, not far from the land her great-grandparents homesteaded in 1869.Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is a noted anthropologist and is also the author of "The Hidden Life of Dogs" (Pocket 1996), "The Tribe of Tiger", "The Harmless People", "Warrior Herdsmen", & the novels "Certain Poor Shepherds", "Reindeer Moon", & "The Animal Wife". She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire and the Boston area.