{"product_id":"the-smell-of-rain","title":"The Smell of Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“You cannot live with someone who does not share” is the uncompromising social principle of the San hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert, for whom “sharing” extends far beyond the distribution of food. It permeates bodily space, ritual life, material goods, actions, ideas, and social relationships. Sharing is not charity, nor is it a moral performance – it is the fundamental condition for living together. One shares in order to survive together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRemarkably, this social system has no written laws, no formal authorities, no institutionalized power. It does not rely on fear, coercion, or the threat of sorcery. What sustains order is a disciplined attentiveness and a conscious stripping away of desire and attachment. To see clearly. To want little. To remain open to others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat might hyper-consumerist, industrialized societies learn from such a way of life?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on years of immersive fieldwork beginning in 1988, an anthropologist who lived among the San offers a vivid ethnographic portrait of their world – particularly the lives of women who sustain, negotiate, and embody this ethic of sharing. Through intimate observation and deep participation, this book reveals a social philosophy forged in one of the world’s harshest environments – yet one that speaks powerfully to the crises of modern abundance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the vast austerity of the desert, we encounter not scarcity, but a radically different vision of wealth: that of mutual dependence, restraint, and shared existence\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaoru Imamura\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003eis Professor in the Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies at Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan. She received a PhD from Kyoto University (1992) in Ecological Anthropological Studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer research focuses on the natural resource use and lifestyles of people in arid regions, such as San hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert, the Tuareg camel nomads of the Sahara Desert, and the Kazakh pastoralists of the Central Asian steppes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 1: Experiences of Living in the Wilderness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 1 Separating in the dry season, reuniting in the rainy season\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 2 The day I danced Eland – The life of women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 2: Sharing Natural Resources\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 3 Gathering activities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 4 Hunting methods\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 5 Cooperation and sharing among the San from the perspective of women’s activities\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 6 Aspects of synchronized behaviors\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 3: Sharing Bodily Resources\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 7 Rites of passage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 8 Extramarital relations and local perspectives on human reproduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 9 Tensions in social relations and rituals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 4: From Nature to Systems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter 10 An overview of the sharing system\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReferences\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IMAMURA Kaoru","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42531599548501,"sku":"978-1-920850-63-0","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9905\/4677\/files\/9781920850630.jpg?v=1779840509","url":"https:\/\/transpacificpress.com\/products\/the-smell-of-rain","provider":"Trans Pacific Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}