In the early 1980s, Utah anthropologist Kevin Jones was part of a team studying the Aché Indians in eastern Paraguay. The Aché lived as hunter-gatherers until competition for their forests abruptly pushed them from the Stone Age to the 20th century. The shock, Jones says, was unimaginable. Kevin Jones wanted to share their story with an audience beyond his academic community and the result is his first novel. Tuesday, he joins Doug to talk about "The Shrinking Jungle" and to explain what he learned about all of us from some of the last hunter-gatherers.
Tuesday, April 30 at 7:00 p.m., Kevin Jones will give a reading at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. [More Information]
Kevin Jones holds academic appointments with the University of Utah Department of Anthropology and the Natural History Museum of Utah. His novel is called The Shrinking Jungle
