Affluence Without Abundance
What We Can Learn from the World's Most Successful Civilisation
By James Suzman
ISBN 9781526609311
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019
'Insightful', 'Fascinating', 'Elegant and absorbing'Profoundly moving, are some of the words readers has used to describe this new edittion of Affluence without Adundance.
What 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.