essay
Medical research among the !Kung
Kalahari hunter-gatherers : studies of the !Kung San and their neighbors • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1976 • Pages: 166-194, 398
By: Truswell, A. Stewart, Hansen, John D. L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
According to the authors the purpose of this study was to provide a medical profile of a hunting and gathering population; here the Dobe !Kung of northwestern Botswana. Truswell and Hansen chose three goals which they wished to achieve in this work: (1) to examine those kinds of medical conditions present or absent in the population, and their effects on the sample population; (2) to examine the incidence of heart disease among the !Kung; and (3) to investigate the nutritional status of the population under examination.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Anthropometry
- Descriptive somatology
- Ontogenetic data
- Nutrition
- Physiological data
- Morbidity
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Nutritionist
- 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
- 1967-1969
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dobe !Kung, northwest Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. Stewart Truswell and John D. L. Hansen
- For bibliographical references see 45: Lee and DeVore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75028320
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)