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.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Southern Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2003
- Field Date
- 1968-1969, 1975, 1978, 1987-1988
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- western Botswana
- Notes
- Patricia Draper
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61)
- LCCN
- 90023009
- LCSH
- San (African people)