Carmel Schrire

Tigers in Africa

Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope

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A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, CarmelSchrire's Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweavessuch diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivoreevolution, and science and romance to show how we create the past and understand thepresent.Schrire recounts the significance of thepalaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey, and Glynn Isaac addressinga famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday ofapartheid. She sets pioneering exploration of the globe against archaeologicalsurveys and romantic quests in the African desert and contrasts… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8139-2129-7
EAN: 9780813921297
Produktnummer: 1832318
Verlag: University of Virginia Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 60 S.
Masse: H21.3 cm x B20.9 cm x D1.0 cm 260 g
Abbildungen: 60 colour illustrations
Gewicht: 260
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Carmel Schrire is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and the author of Digging through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist (Virginia), coauthor of The Future of Former Foragers in Australia and Southern Africa, and editor of Past and Present in Hunter-Gatherer Studies.