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Tigers in Africa
Carmel Schrire
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Description for Tigers in Africa
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This is an unconventional and profusely illustrated presentation of the diverse themes that constitute the past at the southern tip of Africa. Human and carnivore evolution, colonial slavery and apartheid, science and romance, are all intermeshed to show how we create the past and also how we understand the present. The palaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey and Glynn Isaac are lined up against a famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday of apartheid. Pioneering exploration of the globe is set against archaeological surveys and romantic quests in the African desert, and the dark days of ... Read more
This is an unconventional and profusely illustrated presentation of the diverse themes that constitute the past at the southern tip of Africa. Human and carnivore evolution, colonial slavery and apartheid, science and romance, are all intermeshed to show how we create the past and also how we understand the present. The palaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey and Glynn Isaac are lined up against a famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday of apartheid. Pioneering exploration of the globe is set against archaeological surveys and romantic quests in the African desert, and the dark days of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Cape Town Press South Africa
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9781919713632
SKU
V9781919713632
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Ref
99-1
About Carmel Schrire
Carmel Schrire was born in Cape Town and educated at the University of Cape Town, Cambridge University and the Australian National University. She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has published on anthropological issues in South Africa, Australia, and the Arctic, and is the author of the prize winning ... Read more
Reviews for Tigers in Africa
"Another exhilarating roller-coaster by the acclaimed author of Digging through Darkness that celebrates the way archaeology at the Cape of Good Hope Illuminates our grasp of the human career." Richard Klein, Stanford University, author of The Human Career "A delightful, scholarly romp through the history and myths of the Cape" J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Booker Prize, 2000.