essay
The biology of the San
Bushmen : San hunters and herders of southern Africa • Cape Town And Pretoria • Published In 1978 • Pages: 115-129
By: Singer, Ronald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is primarily a study of San human biology, with particular emphasis on the physical condition known as steatopygia among women. Other topics discussed are San longevity, postures in sitting, health and nutrition, child birth, infant feeding, abortion, and body mutilation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Anthropometry
- Descriptive somatology
- Genetics
- Racial identification
- Morbidity
- Regulation of marriage
- Infant feeding
- 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.
- Physical Anthropologist
- Biologist
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Namibia, Botswana, southern Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ronald Singer
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79302323
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)