!Kung San Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society

Name: !Kung San Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society
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ISBN: 9780521295611

ISBN-10: 0521295610

ISBN-13: 9780521295611

Edition: 1979

Authors: Richard B. Lee

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Description:

An ecological and historical study, this is Professor Lee's major statement on his research of hunting and gathering communities.

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/12/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 556
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of tables and figures


Preface


Note on orthography


Introduction: !Kung ecology and society



Fieldwork with the !Kung



San, Bushman, Basarwa: a question of names



The Dobe area: its people and their history



The environment



Technology and the organisation of production



An inventory of plant resources



The mongongo



Hunting



Men, women and work



The allocation of nutritional stress



Production and reproduction



Ownership, leadership and the use of space



Conflict and violence



Economic and social change in the 1960s and 1970s



The lessons of the !Kung


Appendix A-E


Bibliography


Index