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| Foreword | |
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| Author's Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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| Author's Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Author's Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Author's Preface to the First Edition | |
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| A Note on the Ju Language | |
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| A Note on Multimedia Sources | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Ju/'hoansi | |
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| Introduction: A Voyage of Discovery | |
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| A Waterhole Called Dobe | |
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| The People of the Dobe Area | |
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| Who Are the San? | |
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| Studies of the San | |
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| The Dobe Area | |
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| Exploring the Dobe Area | |
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| A History of Contact | |
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| Environment and Settlement | |
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| The Dune and Molapo System | |
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| Water Sources | |
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| Fauna | |
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| Climate | |
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| The Seasonal Round | |
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| Settlement Patterns | |
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| Village Types | |
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| The Layout of the Camp | |
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| Hut and Shelter Construction | |
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| Ethnoarcheology | |
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| Subsistence: Foraging for a Living | |
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| Gathering and Carrying | |
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| Carrying Devices | |
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| Major and Minor Foods | |
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| Food Classes and Subsistence Strategy | |
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| Hunting | |
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| Tools and Techniques | |
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| The Joys of Tracking | |
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| Insulting the Meat | |
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| Work Effort and Caloric Returns | |
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| The Quality and Quantity of the Diet | |
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| Ju/'hoansi Subsistence: Affluence or Anxiety? | |
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| Kinship and Social Organization | |
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| Ju/'hoansi Living Groups | |
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| The Kinship System | |
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| Kinship I | |
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| Kinship II: Names and the Name Relationship | |
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| Kinship III: The Principle of Wi | |
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| Tontah Meets /Tontah | |
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| Marriage and Sexuality | |
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| The Arrangement of Marriages | |
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| The Marriage-by-Capture Ceremony | |
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| Plural Marriage and Remarriage | |
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| Intergroup Alliance and Conflict | |
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| The "Marriage" of/Tontah | |
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| Sexuality | |
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| Male and Female Among the Ju/'hoansi | |
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| Complaint Discourse: Aging and Caregiving Among the Ju/'hoansi | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Aging and Social Change in Ju/'hoan Society | |
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| Field Research on Aging: The 1986-1987 Project | |
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| Complaint Discourse | |
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| Narratives of Neglect and Abandonment | |
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| Chu!ko's Story | |
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| Kasupe's Story | |
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| Entitlement | |
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| The Social Organization of Care | |
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| Conclusion: The Paradox of Sharing and Complaining | |
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| Future Prospects: How Will "Development" Affect Caregiving? | |
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| Conflict, Politics, and Exchange | |
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| Ownership and Leadership | |
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| The Problem of the Headman | |
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| A Fight about Adultery | |
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| Laughter and Danger | |
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| Deadly Combat: Ju/'hoan Style | |
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| The End of the Fighting | |
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| Hxaro Exchange | |
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| Coping with Life: Religion, World View, and Healing | |
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| The World of the //Gangwasi | |
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| High God-Low God | |
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| How Ancestors Become Enemies | |
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| N/um and the Giraffe Dance | |
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| Becoming a Healer | |
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| The Women's Drum Dance | |
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| Three Medicines: One Blood | |
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| The Ju/'hoansi and Their Neighbors | |
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| Introducing the Herero and the Tswana | |
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| Ecological Change | |
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| Work Relations | |
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| Intermarriage | |
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| Swara and the Sarwa | |
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| Perceptions and Directions of Social Change | |
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| Perceptions of the White Man | |
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| Transition to Farming and Herding | |
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| The Case of Debe and Bo | |
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| Wage Work and Migrant Labor | |
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| The First School | |
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| Government and the Future | |
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| The Ju/'hoansi Today | |
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| Dobe: Three Decades of Change | |
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| Life in the 2000s | |
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| Nyae Nyae: A Straggle for Survival | |
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| The Plastic Stone Age | |
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| Independence and After | |
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| The Nyae Nyae Foundation and the Farmers' Co-op | |
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| The Land Question: A Victory for the Ju/'hoansi | |
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| Ju/'hoansi in the New Millennium: Progress and Poverty | |
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| Small Victories | |
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| Regional Developments: Mandela and After | |
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| The Challenge of HIV/AIDS | |
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| Postscript: Bau Then and Now | |
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| Tsumkwe at 50: The 2010 Social Survey of a Namibian Ju/'hoan Town | |
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| A Brief History | |
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| Methods | |
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| Subsistence Strategies: Reliance on Wild, Farmed, or Store Bought Food | |
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| Degree of Dependence on the Cash Economy | |
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| Health Issues: Malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS | |
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| Religious Practices: Indigenous or Missionary Derived | |
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| Education: Levels of Schooling | |
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| Attitudes Towards Old and New Ways of Life: Do You Like the Bush? | |
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| Shebeens: Conviviality, or the Road to Ruin? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Anthropological Practice and Lessons of the Ju/'hoansi | |
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| The Changing Image of the Ju/'hoansi | |
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| Science (Re)Discovers Equality | |
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| Postscript: The/Gwihaba Dancers | |
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| Eating Christmas in the Kalahari | |
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| The Kalahari Debate: Ju/'hoan Images of the Colonial Encounter | |
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| Glossary of Ju/'hoan and Other Non-English Terms | |
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| Films and Media on the Ju/'hoansi: An Annotated List | |
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| References Cited and Recommended Readings | |
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| Index | |