Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies

Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
Author: Carmel Schrire
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315422921

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders. Using historical, anthropological and archaeological data and cases from Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia, the authors examine hunter gatherer peoples—both past and present--to assess these relationships and the mechanisms by which hunter gatherers adapt and maintain elements of their culture in the wider world around them.

The Bushman Myth

The Bushman Myth
Author: Robert Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429974183

The revised, updated version of this book includes an analysis of the sweeping political changes in South Africa since its original publcation in 1992. Other new material covers more theoretical issues and contemporary developments in scholarship, including a reconsideration of the film ?The Gods Must Be Crazy?; a discussion of ?expos thnography? and its attendant political/moral positioning; and an examination of the political situation in Namibia, with a close study of the near collapse of the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation.

South West Africa

South West Africa
Author: Theo De Jager
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1964
Genre: Africa, Southwest
ISBN:

This is one of the largest general bibliographies on Namibia, containing close to 2000 entries. The aim is to provide a checklist of books, entered alphabetically by author. Periodic articles are not included except when available as reprints or pamphlets. The subject index suffers from inaccuracies as quite a number of the entries have not been checked against the original works. The coverage of official publications is very thin, and there are no annotations. (Eriksen/Moorsom 1989).

Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers

Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers
Author: Susan Kent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1996-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0521482372

This book examines variability within broadly defined African forager societies. Foragers have been seen as culturally similar as they all pursue a subsistence strategy emphasising hunting and gathering. However, new research suggests there may be more diversity among groups than has been acknowledged. Here, leading scholars contrast groups with in forager societies. Chapters range in scope from symbolic to ecological and behavioural, providing invaluable data on hunter-gatherer life for anyone concerned with past or present foragers.