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****Hunter-Gatherers, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World****
BACK PAGE: Hugh Brody invites the reader to embark on a series of
expeditions, into the territories of hunters-gatherers, and into ideas
about the human condition. The Other Side of Eden begins in the high
Arctic of the 1970s, where Brody first lived with hunters-gatherers and
encountered a way of being that would transform how he saw the world.
Now he revisits these exquisite landscapes of ice and snow, and the
people who know this land as part of their selves. His mission is to
explore the divide between hunters and farmers which lies at the core
of human history. Why did the farmer triumph? Brody finds the answer in
a variety of places, among them the Book of Genesis, the great Biblical
creation myth at the centre of the agriculturalist view of the world.
'Brody's gripping book brings the resourceful intelligence and courage
of hunter-gatherers vividly to life.' Paul Bahn, New Scientist
'The case for the hunter's ethic has never been more persuasively argued
than in this wide-ranging, eloquent book. For Brody, hunters are a
precious part of the human family, who belong in the human family,
who belong in the modern world, and deserve deserve deep respect.' TLS
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