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The pathways of the pastessay 1994 • Wiessner, Pauline Wilson
San • Africa > Southern Africa
In this article, Wiessner examines the long-term and broad spatial arrangements of HXARO trading partnerships and networks. He argues that HXARO relationships are more formally developed than heretofore described in the literature. They are in fact c...HxaroBook 1988 • Wiessner, Pauline Wilson
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This source examines how the San form social ties to balance out daily, seasonal and yearly variation in subsistence resources and what effect these ties have on the structure, composition and flexibility of social groups. The author finds that relat...