{"product_id":"affluence-without-abundance-what-we-can-learn-from-the-worlds-most-successful-civilisation","title":"Affluence Without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World's Most Successful Civilisation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn his book \"The Original Affluent Society,\" James Suzman explores the life of the Bushmen of southern Africa and offers valuable lessons about work, wealth, happiness, equality, and time. The Bushmen are the most successful civilization in human history, and Suzman's book provides insight into their way of life and how it can teach us today. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 30 May 2019\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom acclaimed anthropologist James Suzman, a portrait of the original affluent society – the Bushmen of southern Africa – and what their way of life can teach us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can we learn from the Bushmen? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthropologist 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo know what it is like to live as people lived for most of human history, you would have to find one of the places where traditional hunting-and-gathering practices are still alive… Fortunately for us, the anthropologist James Suzman did exactly that…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe news here is that the lives of most of our progenitors were better than we think. We are flattering ourselves by believing that their existence was so grim and that our modern, civilized one is, by comparison, so great.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- John Lancaster, The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 288g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 194 x 128 x 22 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781526609311                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Suzman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44094359109882,"sku":"9781526609311","price":7.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1d582fff838850254bbdfd40ea432db5.jpg?v=1626401107","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/affluence-without-abundance-what-we-can-learn-from-the-worlds-most-successful-civilisation","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}