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!Kung knowledge of animal behavior: (or: the proper study of mankind is animals)
Kalahari hunter-gatherers : studies of the !Kung San and their neighbors • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1976 • Pages: 325-348, 402
By: Blurton Jones, N. G. (Nicholas G.), Konner, Melvin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The investigation reported in this study concerns !Kuna knowledge of animal behavior (ethnoethology) and their methods of acquiring and organizing this knowledge (p. 326). This information was elicited from !Kung informants in a series of discussion groups or seminars on animal behavior held in three villages during 1970. Comparisons of the data were then made with modern ethology, a western science of the behavior of animals.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Interviewing in research
- Hunting and trapping
- Scientific method
- Ethnozoology
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- Psychologist
- 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
- ca. 1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- !Kung San, Namibia, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nicholas Blurton Jones and Melvin Konner
- For bibliographical references see 45: Lee and DeVore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75028320
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)