Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030782649X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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.
The Warrior Herdsmen
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030782649X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030782649X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394718002
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394718002
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Harmless People
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“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
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
“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
Barsoom
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612104916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10330
Book Description
Contains all the adventures on Mars!A Princess of MarsThe Gods of MarsThe Warlord of MarsThuvia, Maid of MarsThe Chessmen of MarsThe Master Mind of MarsA Fighting Man of MarsSwords of MarsSynthetic Men of MarsLlana of GatholJohn Carter of Mars
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612104916
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10330
Book Description
Contains all the adventures on Mars!A Princess of MarsThe Gods of MarsThe Warlord of MarsThuvia, Maid of MarsThe Chessmen of MarsThe Master Mind of MarsA Fighting Man of MarsSwords of MarsSynthetic Men of MarsLlana of GatholJohn Carter of Mars
The State
Author: Franz Oppenheimer
Publisher: Perennial Press
ISBN: 1531263402
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
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...
Publisher: Perennial Press
ISBN: 1531263402
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
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...
The Early State
Author: Henri J. M. Claessen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110813327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110813327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The Politics of Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Politics of Aristotle: Two essays, Books III, IV, and V
Author: Aristotle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Tribe of Tiger
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743426894
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743426894
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Glories of the Past
Author: Dietrich Von Bothmer
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810964007
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810964007
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description