Book
The !Kung San: men, women, and work in a foraging society
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge, [eng.] • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Lee, Richard B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a basic ethnographic source on the Dobe area San in Botswana. Based on intermittent fieldwork conducted between 1963 and 1973, Lee describes a hunting and gathering way of life which had all but disappeared by the end of his study. Although all aspects of !Kung life are explored, the emphasis on ecology and adaptation are evident in the attention paid to subsistence behavior, plant and animal life, and resource redistribution. In the last chapter, Lee details the changes in !Kung life, including their integration into a market economy and political struggle, which developed during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Fieldwork is carried out in the Dobe area which includes Xai xai, a camp 40 km from the main camp at Dobe.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Kin relationships
- Settlement patterns
- Fire
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Food preparation
- Informal in-group justice
- Inter-community relations
- Labor and leisure
- Division of labor by gender
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Labor supply and employment
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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
- R. A. Wagner ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1973
- 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 Borshay Lee
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-512)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78025904
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)