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Minimal politics: the political organization of the Hadza of north Tanzania
Politics in leadership: a comparative perspective • Oxford • Published In 1979 • Pages: 244-266
By: Woodburn, James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Hadza live in small nomadic bands characterized by frequent changes in the number and composition of members. This document identifies two of the most important conditions that enable this flexibility. First, the Hadza live in an area that is unsuitable for farming and herding, but rich in game and edible tubers and fruits. These resources are easy to acquire individually, with minimal assistance from others. Second, Hadza society lacks concepts of property rights, binding kinship ties, or other enduring mechanisms for enforcing mutual help and cooperation among individuals. As a consequence, individuals are weakly committed to other band members, if not to other members of a household.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Kin relationships
- Social relationships and groups
- Annual cycle
- Hunting and trapping
- Collecting
- Diet
- Eating
- Real property
- Social relationships and groups
- Community heads
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Social control
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hadza
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1961, 1965-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern and southern Lake Eyasi area, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- James Woodburn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-266)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78041116
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hatsa (African people)