Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers

Published by Harvard University Press 1976

Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers

Studies of the !Kung San and Their Neighbors

Edited by: Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674430600

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword Sherwood L. Washburn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Note on Orthography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
Introduction Richard B. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
I Ecology and Social Change
1 The Dobe-/Du/da Environment Background to a Hunting and Gathering Way of Life John E. Yellen and Richard B. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 Settlement Patterns of the !Kung: An Archaeological Perspective John E. Yellen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3 !Kung Spatial Organization: An Ecological and Historical Perspective Richard B. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4 Subsistence Ecology of Central Kalahari San Jiro Tanaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
5 From Hunters to Squatters: Social and Cultural Change among the Farm San of Ghanzi, Botswana Mathias G. Guenther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Further Studies to Part I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
II Population and Health
6 The Population of the Dobe Area !Kung Nancy Howell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
7 Regional Variation in !Kung Populations Henry Harpending Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
8 Medical Research among the !Kung A. Stewart Truswell and John D.L. Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Further Studies to Part II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
III Childhood
9 Social and Economic Constraints on Child Life among the !Kung Patricia Draper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
10 Maternal Care, Infant Behavior and Development among the !Kung Melvin J. Konner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
11 A !Kung Woman's Memories of Childhood Marjorie Shostak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Further Studies to Part III Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
IV Behavior and Belief
12 Education for Transcendence: !Kia-Healing with the Kalahari !Kung Richard Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
13 Aspects of !Kung Folklore Megan Biesele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
14 !Kung Knowledge of Animal Behavior (or: The Proper Study of Mankind Is Animals) Nicholas Blurton Jones and Melvin J. Konner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
15 Sharing, Talking, and Giving: Relief of Social Tensions among the !Kung Lorna Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Further Studies to Part IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1976
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 408
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 53
- Tables: 44
- Other: 11 Ktn.
Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; !Kung (African people); San (African people)

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674430600

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1976
ISBN: 9780674430594