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The Dobe Ju/'hoansi

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Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1993 - Social Science - 207 pages
This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to !Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage and kinship system. It documents their determination to take hold of their own destiny-despite exploitation of their habitat and relentless development-to assert their political rights and revitalize their communities. Use of the name Ju/'hoansi (meaning "real people") acknowledges their new sense of empowerment.

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Review: The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

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This is a classic ethnography detailing the lives of the Dob Ju/'Hoansi - a group living in the Kalahari desert of Africa. The author, Richard Lee, is an anthropologist who has spent a great deal of ...

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Contents

The Juhoansi
1
The People of the Dobe Area
9
Environment and Settlement
23
Copyright

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Richard B. Lee is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, author of The !Kung San (1979) and The Dobe Ju'hoansi (second edition, 1993), and co-editor, with Irven Devore, of Man and Hunter (1968) and Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers (1976), and, with Eleanor Leacok, of Politics and History in Band Societies (1982).

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