Hugh Brody
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.25 | 188 Users | 20 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World |
| Author | : | Hugh Brody |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | April 30th 2002 by North Point Press (first published January 1st 2000) |
| Categories | : | Anthropology. Nonfiction. History. Science. Environment |
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Hugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocative book. Contrary to stereotype, he says, it is the farmers and their colonizing descendants—ourselves—who are the true nomads, doomed to the geographical and spiritual restlessness embodied in the story of Genesis. By contrast, the hunters have a deep attachment to the place and ways of their ancestors that stems from an enviable sense, distinctively expressed in thought, word, and act, of being part of the fabric of the natural and spiritual worlds.Particularize Books To The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
| Original Title: | The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World |
| ISBN: | 0865476381 (ISBN13: 9780865476387) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize Nominee (2001), Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Nominee (2000) |
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Ratings: 4.25 From 188 Users | 20 ReviewsArticle About Books The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
This was among the best books I've read this year. Brody has the clearest picture of the relationship between hunting cultures and farming that I've seen. He writes compellingly weaving storied experience and broader theory.Hey! Do you hate farmers? Then this book is for you. Ok, let me put that more diplomatically. If you're anything like me, at some point you have looked at all the terrible problems with our society, throughout its history (ruined environment, wars, colonization, christianity, etc) and have wondered what the f__k is wrong with white people. Hugh Brody's certainyl has. And his answer is really interesting. He writes that the root of many of our problems may be with farming, and the way that
IMO the first two-thirds were five stars, but I found the last third a bit uneven. I was especially disappointed with how Brody discussed gender roles in hunter gatherer cultures; I thought in spite of his attempts to explain how women and men have "separate yet equal" roles, his explanation itself showed bias. I also thought his conclusion was on the perfunctory side. On the whole, the book gave me lots to think about. Definitely worth a read.
Some great passages in here on the different hunter-gather communities Brody has spent time living and working with. Unfortunately, for me, too often it gets rather bogged down in the intricacies of linguistic origins or the various belief systems. As interesting as these subjects are it felt much more disjointed and less satisfactory reading than his other work Maps And Dreams which I'd recently read and enjoyed far more. For a student of this particular field of anthropology it will doubtless
One of the most enlightening books I have ever read. Puts nature and human beings into their proper perspective, that is to say that humans should survive in a manner similar to our ancestors, the hunters and gatherers, if we want to survive as a species and not wreck our planet's resources. Since the dawn of the age of farming, we have wreaked havoc on our planet, and Brody systematically and thoroughly shows us how this is so. He spent a lot of time with the natives of upper western Canada,
Hugh Brody is an English anthropologist. His parents were Jewish, and a number of their relatives died in the holocaust. Brody spent three decades in Canada hanging out with natives raised in hunter-gatherer societies. He worked for the government, and made documentary films.Brody was raised in a nutjob civilization. He found the hunter-gatherers to be fascinating, because they had many virtues that were missing in modern society. The natives were kind and generous people. They radiated a
Excellent mix of the personal and academic prespective on hunter/gathers. And since most of the book focuses on Canadian hunter/gathers who occupy over half the country, it would have been nice for him to draw out the implications for Canada -- goverance, identity etc.
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