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Publication date:
12 December 1979
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ISBN:
0521295610
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9780521295611
The !Kung San
by
Richard Borshay Lee
An ecological and historical study, this is Professor Lee's major statement on his research of hunting and gathering communities.
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For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the !Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, the !Kung San were one of the last of the world's people to live this life. By 1973, when Lee last lived with the group, it appeared that they !Kung were a society on the threshold of a transformation that signalled the end of foraging as an independent way of life, at least in Africa. The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society, an ecological and historical study, is Professor Lee's major statement on his research. By maintaining simultaneous historical and synchronic perspectives, Lee is able to extend his analysis of core features from the contemporary !Kung to prehistoric societies. These basic principles become the means to understanding the form of human life that has been obscured by the developments and complications of societies during the last few thousand years.
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Publisher & Imprint:
Cambridge University Press
City:
Cambridge
Pages:
556
More info:
height 229 mm
width 152 mm
weight 810 gr
thickness 31 mm
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC19) 305.8963
Library of Congress Subject: DT797 ! Kung (African people)
Record updated at:
07 March, 2013
time:
13:05
Summary
The !Kung San
List of tables and figures; Preface; Note on orthography; Introduction: !Kung ecology and society; 1. Fieldwork with the !Kung; 2. San, Bushman, Basarwa: a question of names; 3. The Dobe area: its people and their history; 4. The environment; 5. Technology and the organisation of production; 6. An inventory of plant resources; 7. The mongongo; 8. Hunting; 9. Men, women and work; 10. The allocation of nutritional stress; 11. Production and reproduction; 12. Ownership, leadership and the use of space; 13. Conflict and violence; 14. Economic and social change in the 1960s and 1970s; 15. The lessons of the !Kung; Appendix A-E; Bibliography; Index.
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