Book
The !Kung of Nyae Nyae
Harvard University Press • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1976 • Pages:
By: Marshall, Lorna.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source provides a basic ethnographic description of the Nyae Nyae !Kung. Chapters are organized around the topics of environment and settlement, plant foods and gathering, animal foods and hunting, family and band, kin relationships and terminology, marriage, relief of social tensions, play and games, and music. Each of the bands in the Nyae Nyae area has been studied in detail and is represented in exhaustive kinship charts. Also included are summaries of the click (Khoisan) languages, racial affinities and characteristics of the San, and the prehistory of the San peoples. The source concludes with a list of !Kung artifacts made from vegetal and animal products. Marshall has been very thorough in her description of the topics chosen for discussion. Especially notable is the identification of many individuals, and kinship charts showing the relationships among individuals and bands. There are 66 artful photographs illustrating the text. Unfortunately, Nyae Nyae !Kung religion is not discussed at all, and ritual is mentioned only in passing. Most of the ethnography is based on fieldwork conducted prior to 1961, although some information from Richard Lee's later work is included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food quest
- Family
- Kinship
- Recreation
- Art
- Marriage
- 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
- Christopher Latham
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1961
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1961
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nyae Nyae region, Namibia and Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lorna J. Marshall
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76019152
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)