essay
Hunting variability at a recent sedentary Kalahari village
Cultural diversity and twentieth-century foragers : an African perspective • Cambridge • Published In 1996 • Pages: 125-156
By: Kent, Susan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Kent examines the influence of sharing on hunting behavior, skill, and success among six hunters in a recently settled band of foragers over a five-year period. Although now sedentary, hunting remains an important subsistence activity, even for those hunters who own goats. Kent found that although the individual skills of the hunters varied, the time spent hunting and hunting success depended less on the hunter's skill, size of family, or season, and more on sharing practices. A poor hunter would hunt more frequently to supply meat to his sharing network, whereas a more skilled hunter would hunt less in order to maintain sharing equity. Kent concludes that it is the social relationships, both kinship and friendship, that matter most, influencing subsistence practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Pastoral activities
- Production and supply
- Social relationships and groups
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1987-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1987-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kutse, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Susan Kent
- For bibliographical references see document 76: Kent
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95017648
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)