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Land Filled with Flies
Edwin N. Wilmsen
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Description for Land Filled with Flies
Paperback. Num Pages: 418 pages, 34ill.30tabs. BIC Classification: 1H; KCM; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 566.
"The image of a pristine isolation has been almost as common in research on foragers as in the popular media. Land filled with Flies is a sustanined argument against such views. Wilmsen marshals an enormous quantity of historical, archival, archeological, ethnographic, and survey data on the Kalahari Zhu to show how far from the reality these images are, how they have their own historical provenance, how they have been analytically distorting, and how they have proven politically pernicious for living groups like the Zhu."—Pauline Peters, Science
"[A] major work. . . . Anthropologists will, and should, use Wilmsen's meticulously ... Read more
"The image of a pristine isolation has been almost as common in research on foragers as in the popular media. Land filled with Flies is a sustanined argument against such views. Wilmsen marshals an enormous quantity of historical, archival, archeological, ethnographic, and survey data on the Kalahari Zhu to show how far from the reality these images are, how they have their own historical provenance, how they have been analytically distorting, and how they have proven politically pernicious for living groups like the Zhu."—Pauline Peters, Science
"[A] major work. . . . Anthropologists will, and should, use Wilmsen's meticulously ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
418
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226900155
SKU
V9780226900155
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