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!Kung women: contrasts in sexual egalitarianism in foraging and sedentary contexts
Toward an Anthropology of Women • New York And London • Published In 1975 • Pages: 77-109, 396-416
By: Draper, Patricia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source examines and compares female and male status among !Kung who continue to live a hunting and gathering way of life and others who have recently adopted a settled way of life. The author focuses on several dimensions of sex status and female-male relations, including subsistence contributions, absenteeism from the camp or village, division of labor, child rearing practices, and group size and settlement pattern. The author concludes that the settled way of life has altered sex roles among the !Kung and resulted in a decrease in women's autonomy and status.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Division of labor by gender
- Sociocultural trends
- Family relationships
- Cultural participation
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1969
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- !Kwanga and Duda areas, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patricia Draper
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-416)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74021476
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)