The Other Side of Eden: Hunters Farmers and the Shaping of the World

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.