essay
The Hadza
, cultures • 2 • Published In 2004 • Pages: 689-696
By: Marlowe, Frank.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article focuses on Hadza concepts of health and illness. Their lifestyle provides access to a healthy diet comprising a variety of plants, fruits, meat and honey. However, mobility involves health risks, including bodily injury and vulnerability to infections. Furthermore, there is the fear of violating food taboos, including the temptation individual hunters may feel to eat meat that is supposed to be eaten only ritually with other men. As there are no specialized medicine men or women, most Hadza know herbal medicine and other treatment procedures for commonly-occurring injuries and illnesses.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theory of disease
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Pharmaceuticals
- Diet
- Nutrition
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Infant feeding
- Childbirth
- Gender roles and issues
- Gender status
- Sorcery
- Avoidance and taboo
- Cosmology
- Medical therapy
- Public health and sanitation
- 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
- 1995-2003
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958-2003
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Eyasi area, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frank Marlowe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-696)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2003050644
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hatsa (African people)