Author: Alan Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428651
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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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: Megan Biesele
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Emile Boonzaier
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864863119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The Cape Herders explodes a variety of South African myths - not least those surrounding the negative stereotype of the 'Hottentot', and those which contribute to the idea that the Khoikhoi are by now 'a vanished people'.
Author: Carmel Schrire
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315422913
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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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.
Author: Daniel H. Temple
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107187354
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Explores the variety of ways in which hunter-gatherer societies have responded to external stressors while maintaining their core identity.
Author: Alan Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.
Author: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic
Author: Tim Ingold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521358873
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Throughout the northern circumpolar tundras and forests, and over many millennia, human populations have based their livelihood wholly or in part upon the exploitation of a single animal species-the reindeer. Yet some are hunters, others pastoralists, while today traditional pastoral economies are being replaced by a commercially oriented ranch industry. In this book, drawing on ethnographic material from North America and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching, each based on the same animal in the same environment, and each viewed in terms of a particular conjunction of social and ecological relations of production. In developing a workable synthesis between ecological and economic approaches in anthropology, Ingold introduces theoretically rigorous concepts for the analysis of specialized animal-based economies, which cast the problem of 'domestication' in an entirely new light.
Author: Alan Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316101932
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.
Author: Jasper Knight
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107055792
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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This book provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary, for researchers, professionals and policymakers.
