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Social and economic constraints on child life among the !Kungessay 1976 • Draper, Patricia
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This document is primarily a study of !Kung childhood and personality development. Much of the material in this work focuses on the effects of subsistence ecology on later childhood development but other factors which also enter into this picture of ...Room to maneuveressay 1992 • Draper, Patricia
San • Africa > Southern Africa
Among the !Kung San of Botswana, women are sometimes beaten by their husbands and coerced by other men, particularly their fathers. The factors that contribute to this form of aggression are various and are changing in recent years as a consequence o...!Kung womenessay 1975 • Draper, Patricia
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This source examines and compares female and male status among !Kung who continue to live a hunting and gathering way of life and others who have recently adopted a settled way of life. The author focuses on several dimensions of sex status and femal...Coming in from the Busharticle 1990 • Draper, Patricia & Kranichfeld, Marion
San • Africa > Southern Africa
Fieldwork done in the late 1980s shows that !Kung San are living in settled villages with subsistence based on stock keeping, gardening, government distribution of surplus foods, foraging, and in some cases, employment by neighboring cattle-keeping g...If you have a child you have a lifeessay 1992 • Draper, Patricia & Buchanan, Anne
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This document focuses on the ties between older parents (particularly fathers) and their adult children among the !Kung San. The authors point out that unlike other ethnic populations in the Third World the !Kung San have a large proportion of their ...Technological change and child behavior among the !Kungarticle 1988 • Draper, Patricia & Cashdan, Elizabeth A.
San • Africa > Southern Africa
The source examines how changes in subsistence economy has affected child behavior and relations between parents and children among the !Kung San of Western Botswana. The authors' investigation is based on comparative observations of child play and b...