‘Insightful’ YUVAL NOAH HARARI‘Fascinating’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Elegant and absorbing’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘Profoundly moving’ IRISH TIMESWhat can we learn from the Bushmen? If the success of a civilisation is measured by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen of the Kalahari are by far the most successful in human history. Anthropologist James Suzman spent twenty-five years in Southern Africa documenting their way of life and encounters with modern society, gathering invaluable lessons about work, wealth, happiness, equality and time.

Affluence Without Abundance
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A vibrant portrait of the ‘original affluent society’ – the Bushmen of southern Africa – by the anthropologist who has spent the better part of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity. If the success of a civilization is measured by its endurance over time, then the Bushmen of the Kalahari are by far the most successful in human history. A hunting and gathering people who made a good living by working only as much as needed to exist in harmony with their hostile desert environment, the Bushmen have lived in southern Africa since the evolution of our species nearly two hundred thousand years ago. In ‘Affluence Without Abundance’, anthropologist James Suzman asks whether understanding how hunter-gatherers like the Bushmen found contentment by having few needs easily met might help us address some of the environmental and economic challenges we face today.
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