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| Author | : Richard B. Lee |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : !Kung (African people) |
| ISBN | : 9781583481257 |
At the time of the original publication of this book, Richard B. Lee was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and Irven DeVore was Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. This book is the product of a number of years of work by a variety of specialists who each brought their various talents and techniques to bear in studying the behavior of a small group of people, the San (Bushman). The intention was to understand a way of life, not some limited aspect of human behavior. The importance of the San comes from the fundamental role which hunting has played in human history. Contemporary peoples who still rely on hunting help give us a deeper understanding of a major segment of human history. Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers is a collection of studies that is bound to be of interest to a broad range of social scientists and general readers.
| Author | : Richard Borshay Lee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 1979-12-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521225786 |
For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the !Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, the !Kung San were one of the last of the world's people to live this life. By 1973, when Lee last lived with the group, it appeared that they !Kung were a society on the threshold of a transformation that signalled the end of foraging as an independent way of life, at least in Africa. The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society, an ecological and historical study, is Professor Lee's major statement on his research. By maintaining simultaneous historical and synchronic perspectives, Lee is able to extend his analysis of core features from the contemporary !Kung to prehistoric societies. These basic principles become the means to understanding the form of human life that has been obscured by the developments and complications of societies during the last few thousand years.
| Author | : Richard B. Lee |
| Publisher | : New York ; Montreal : Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
1. The !Kung 2. The People of the Dobe Area 3. Environment and Settlement 4. Subsistence: Foraging for a living 5. Kinship and Social organization 6. Marriage and sexuality 7. Conflicts, politics and exchange 8. Coping with Life: Religion, World View, and Healing 9. The !Kung and Their Neighbors 10. Perceptions and Directions of Social Change.
| Author | : Dorothy Ayers Counts |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Cross-cultural studies |
| ISBN | : 9780252067976 |
This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the social and cultural factors that work either to inhibit or to promote domestic violence against women. The volume also includes a study of abuse among nonhuman primates and a cross-cultural analysis of the legal aspects of wife beating. By presenting counterexamples from other cultures, contributors challenge Western assumptions about the factors leading to wife beating. Through a close examination of societies where wife beating is infrequent or absent, To Have and To Hit identifies the factors--economic, social, political, and cultural--that must be explored and transformed in order to combat this violence and eventually eliminate it.
| Author | : Richard Katz |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780674077362 |
This account of the ancient healing dances practiced by the Kung people of southern Africa's Kalahari dessert includes vivid eyewitness descriptions of night-long healing dances and interviews with Kung healers.
| Author | : Lorna Marshall |
| Publisher | : Peabody Museum Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0873659082 |
Marshall leads the reader through the intricacies, ambiguities, and silences of !Kung beliefs. Based on fieldwork among the Bushmen of the Kalahari in the early 1950s, she presents the culture, beliefs, and spirituality of one of the last true hunting-and-gathering peoples by focusing on members of different bands as they reveal their own views.
| Author | : Alan Barnard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1992-02-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521428651 |
A study of the influence of environment on culture and social organization among the Khoisan, a cluster of southern African peoples, comprised of the Bushmen or San "hunters," the Khoekhoe "herders", and the Damara, (also herders).
| Author | : Marjorie Shostak |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2014-01-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134157665 |
Married at twelve, then separated, divorced and widowed, Nisa is the mother of four children, none of whom survived. She is strong, capable of foraging on her own in one of the world's most hostile environments, not dependent on any man for her daily sustenance and ready to talk to anyone as her equal. Wise, full of humour at the absurdities of life and courageous in the face of its defeats, she is bawdy, practical and incurably romantic. She is a woman of the !Khung people who live by means of humanity's oldest survival strategy - gathering and hunting. This book is the remarkable story of Nisa's life, told in her own words to Marjorie Shostak. It is a story full of echoes from a female past that we can never know directly. But it is also Nisa's unique story, her own voice, her own dignity. In anyone's culture, she is a remarkable woman.
| Author | : Kent Flannery |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 646 |
| Release | : 2012-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674064976 |
Flannery and Marcus demonstrate that the rise of inequality was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables but resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. Reversing the social logic can reverse inequality, they argue, without violence.
| Author | : Michael Carrithers |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1991-04-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521365055 |
The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian society and religion out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly of Listeners: The Jains in Society is the first book to address the sociology of the Jains and to discuss the notion of the "community" based on religious affiliation in India. Topics covered include Jain ideals and identity; women in the Jains community; popular Jainism; Jain reform and Jain identity in the UK. This collection is an important theoretical addition to the studies of Indian society, which has previously focused mainly on caste and class politics as the fundamental social units. With much recent fieldwork providing unique information on the ethnography of the Jains, this study will prove indispensable to any scholar interested in this little known but highly influential social group.
