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Subsistence ecology of central Kalahari San
Kalahari hunter-gatherers : studies of the !Kung San and their neighbors • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1976 • Pages: 98-119, 396
By: Tanaka, JirŌ.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this study Tanaka examines central Kalahari subsistence patterns in detail, making comparisons in the process with the comparable material from the Dobe area in an attempt to delineate the range of variation among the Kalahari hunting and gathering peoples. Emphasis in the work is on the Kade San made up of /Gwi and //Gana groups. The document deals with ecology, culture change, and ecological adaptation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Nutrition
- Annual cycle
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Diet
- Water supply
- Settlement patterns
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1967-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kade San (/Gwi and //Gana), central Kalahari, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jiro Tanaka
- For bibliographical references see 45: Lee and DeVore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75028320
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)