MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 02643fam a22003734a 4500
001 3284501
005 20221020025424.0
008 000822s2001 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 00045258
020 $a0865476101 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)44934379
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm44934379
035 $9AUR8082CU
035 $a(NNC)3284501
035 $a3284501
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB-B
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGN388$b.B76 2001
082 00 $a306.3/64$221
100 1 $aBrody, Hugh.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50040510
245 14 $aThe other side of Eden :$bhunters, farmers, and the shaping of the world /$cHugh Brody.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorth Point Press,$c2001.
300 $a376 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 351-360) and index.
520 1 $a"Hugh Brody first encountered hunting peoples when he lived among the Inuit of the High Arctic, who instructed him not only how to speak but how to do and be Inuk-titut, "in the manner of an Inuk." Since then he has spent nearly three decades studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers, who survive at the margins of the vast, fertile lands occupied by farming peoples and their descendants, now the great majority of the world's population.".
520 8 $a"In material terms, the hunters have been all but vanquished, yet in this profound and passionate book, Brody utterly dispels the notion that theirs is a lesser way of life. Drawing on his experiences among indigenous peoples as well as on the work of linguists, historians, and fellow anthropologists, he reveals the systems of thought, belief, and practice that distinguish the hunters from the farmers.
520 8 $aWhereas the farmers are doomed to the geographical and spiritual restlessness embodied in the story of Genesis, Brody argues, the hunters' deep attachment to the place and ways of their ancestors stems from an enviable sense, distinctively expressed in thought, language, and behavior, that they are part of a web of relationships in the natural and spiritual worlds.
520 8 $aBrody's aim, however, is not to elevate one mode of being over another; rather, it is to suggest that we might move beyond the familiar dichotomies and become more fully human."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHunting and gathering societies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063134
650 0 $aInuit.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001720
852 00 $boff,sci$hGN388$i.B76 2001