essay
Room to maneuver: !Kung women cope with men
Sanctions and sanctuary : cultural perspectives on the beating of wives • Boulder, Colo. • Published In 1992 • Pages: 43-61
By: Draper, Patricia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Among the !Kung San of Botswana, women are sometimes beaten by their husbands and coerced by other men, particularly their fathers. The factors that contribute to this form of aggression are various and are changing in recent years as a consequence of new economic and residential practices now seen among the !Kung as they have transformed themselves from mobile foragers to primarily sedentary food producers. The responses of women and their supporters to incidents of wife abuse are also changing. In this paper several episodes of wife-beating that came to the author's attention during her field work among the !Kung will be reported and discussed in terms of the cultural values relevant to their former nomadic life and in terms of the realities of current life styles in the 1980s. In a concluding section the prospects for future patterns in wife abuse is discussed (p. 43).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Interviewing in research
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Settlement patterns
- Ethnic stratification
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Regulation of marriage
- Family relationships
- 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; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1969, 1975, 1978, 1987-1988
- 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)
- western Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patricia Draper
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90023009
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)