Hugh Brody Bücher

Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz in Israel and the deep Canadian Arctic.

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 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.

Text and photos portraying the diverse native peoples who live in the Canadian arctic. Includes chapters on stereotypes, peoples, cold, meat, animals, mobility, authority, children, language, tradition, frontiers, and the politics of survival.

Paperback. Signed by Hugh Brody on title page. Covers and inside covers are lightly marked. Leading corners, edges and spine are worn. Light scores on covers and half title page. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW