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Subsistence ecology of central Kalahari Sanessay 1976 • Tanaka, JirŌ
San • Africa > Southern Africa
In this study Tanaka examines central Kalahari subsistence patterns in detail, making comparisons in the process with the comparable material from the Dobe area in an attempt to delineate the range of variation among the Kalahari hunting and gatherin...Social integration of the San society from the viewpoint of sexual relationshipsarticle 1989 • Tanaka, JirŌ
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This source focuses on the Central Kalahari San and examines four examples of social clusters united by marriage and other sexual relationships. In his examination the author discusses the incidence of polygyny, divorce, remarriage, and an extramarit...The recent changes in the life and society of the Central Kalahari Sanarticle 1987 • Tanaka, JirŌ
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This source discusses changes in the hunting and gathering activities, residential patterns and meat distribution among Central Kalahari San who are undergoing processes of sedentarization and monetization. According to the author, these processes ha...The San hunter-gatherers of the KalahariBook 1980 • Tanaka, JirŌ & Hughes, David W.
San • Africa > Southern Africa
This source is an ecological study of the Central Kalahari San of the Kade area and is an attempt, in the author's words, 'to elucidate the original configuration of human society in order to discover the relationship between subhuman primate societi...