Book
Women like meat: the folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalahari Ju/'hoan
Witwatersrand University Press ; Indiana University Press • Johannesburg, South Africa • Published In 1993 • Pages:
By: Biesele, Megan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph consists of a series of tales collected orally from the Ju/'hoan people of western Botswana between the years 1970-1972. The tales are part of a collection made from several different groups of people showing varying degrees of influence from Tswana and Herero pastoralists from the west, as well as from white settlers. Most of the tales come from a group of Ju/'hoansi who were in substantial contact with economies other than hunting and gathering. This particular group lived a semi-sedentary life at a place called Kauri … twelve miles west of the Tswana settlement of Tsau, Northwest Africa (p. 20). The stories which form the major focus of this book explore the integrated collaborations between the sexes involving work and foodstuffs, marriage and procreation with an emphasis on the man/woman cognitive opposition in Ju/'hoan culture and its symbolic mediation in folklore.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Sociocultural trends
- Verbal arts
- Gender status
- Sacred objects and places
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnozoology
- Puberty and initiation
- Texts translated into english
- 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.
- Folklorist
- 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 ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1972
- 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)
- Ju/'hoan people, Botswana and Namibia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Megan Biesele
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93012414
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)