The Other Side of Eden by Hugh Brody invites the reader to embark upon a series of expeditions, into the territories of hunter-gatherers, and into radical ideas about what it means to be human in the present - and what it could mean in the future.
This is a study of hunter/gatherer culture. Brody studies the culture, and most especially the language, of the hunter/gatherers - the Inuit have 28 words for snow - and uses it to form insights into the way normal society works.
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The Other Side of Eden by Hugh Brody invites the reader to embark upon a series of expeditions, into the territories of hunter-gatherers, and into radical ideas about what it means to be human in the present - and what it could mean in the future.
This is a study of hunter/gatherer culture. Brody studies the culture, and most especially the language, of the hunter/gatherers - the Inuit have 28 words for snow - and uses it to form insights into the way normal society works.
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Hugh Brody revisits the High Arctic, with its exquisite landscape of ice and snow, in order to explore the great divide between hunters and farmers which lies at the core of human history. Why, Brody asks, did the farmer triumph? And what can the hunter-gatherers way of life tell us about our humanity?
Critic Reviews
'Often eloquent, sometimes moving, and always fascinating... Brody's gripping book brings the resourceful intelligence and courage of hunter-gatherers vividly to life.' New Scientist 'The case for the hunter's ethic has never been more persuasively argued than in this wide-ranging, eloquent book.' TLS
About the Author
Hugh Brody was born in 1943 and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He taught social anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast. He is an Honorary Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, and an Associate of the School for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.In the 1970s he worked with the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, and then with Inuit and Indian organisations, mapping hunter-gatherer territories and researching Land Claims and indigenous rights in many parts of Canada. He was an adviser to the Mackenzie Pipeline Inquiry, a member of the World Bank's famous Morse Commission and chairman of the Snake River Independent Review, all of which took him to the encounter between large-scale development and indigenous communities. Since 1997 he has worked with the South African San Institute on Bushman history and land rights in the Southern Kalahari.
Hugh Brody revisits the High Arctic, with its exquisite landscape of ice and snow, in order to explore the great divide between hunters and farmers which lies at the core of human history. Why, Brody asks, did the farmer triumph? And what can the hunter-gatherers way of life tell us about our humanity?
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