Book
Subsistence ecology of !Kung Bushmen
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Lee, Richard B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The data presented in this thesis are based primarily on the author's fieldwork in the Dobe area of Bechuanaland. On the basis of detailed observations made during a two years stay among these San, he came to the conclusion the San economy is far above the starvation level. Except for a relatively short time of the year when the water supply is low, San are able to gain sufficient food from their environment without strenuous efforts. Gathering of plants, especially a certain kind of nut, is of main importance for food provision. Hunting is of very secondary importance. The author also presents valuable demographic data and gives short descriptions of relations between San, Bantu and European farmers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food quest
- Geography
- Ethnozoology
- Food consumption
- History
- Land use
- Maps
- External relations
- Settlement patterns
- Demography
- Water supply
- Production and supply
- Community structure
- Ethnobotany
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Sigrid Khera ; Sarah Bridges ; 1972-1973
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dobe area, Botswana and Namibia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard Barry Lee
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of California (Berkeley), 1966
- UM66-3636
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)