The Dobe Ju/'hoansi, Volume 10This 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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Page 129
... goats have destroyed the grass and leafy shrub cover within a three - kilometer radius of the permanent waterholes , and a cover of thorny runners and bushes has replaced it . Also , each cattle post has a massive permanent population ...
... goats have destroyed the grass and leafy shrub cover within a three - kilometer radius of the permanent waterholes , and a cover of thorny runners and bushes has replaced it . Also , each cattle post has a massive permanent population ...
Page 141
... goats and cattle . But wanting is one thing , and getting is quite another . TRANSITION TO FARMING AND HERDING At the time of my first field trip in 1963 , the Dobe area Ju / ' hoansi appeared to be full - time hunter - gatherers , with ...
... goats and cattle . But wanting is one thing , and getting is quite another . TRANSITION TO FARMING AND HERDING At the time of my first field trip in 1963 , the Dobe area Ju / ' hoansi appeared to be full - time hunter - gatherers , with ...
Page 142
... goat herd is easier to manage , and several families have built kraals and as- sembled small herds consisting of their own goats and those of their relatives . These families put the children of the camp to work herding and watering the ...
... goat herd is easier to manage , and several families have built kraals and as- sembled small herds consisting of their own goats and those of their relatives . These families put the children of the camp to work herding and watering the ...
Contents
The Juhoansi | 1 |
The People of the Dobe Area | 8 |
Environment and Settlement | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Africa animal anthropology arrows asked Basarwa behavior Biesele Blacks Botswana brother bush Bushmen called cattle Chapter conflict culture Debe development anthropology diet Dobe area Dobe Ju/'hoansi ecology fight film foraging gangwasi Gausha Ghanzi girls goats Goshe headman healers healing dance herd Herero hunter hunter-gatherers hunting and gathering husband huts Hwan hxaro joking Ju/'hoan Ju/'hoansi Kalahari Kalahari Desert Kangwa kaross Kasupe kill kin terms kinship Kumsa kun!a Kung San land living Lorna Marshall Marjorie Shostak marriage married Maun meat mongongo mother N!ai N!eishi n!ore name relationship Namibia nuts Nyae Nyae area older parents percent relatives season Setswana sexual siblings sister social social anthropology society South African spear species spouses steenbok SWAPO swara Tjum!kui Toma Tontah trance truck Tswana village waterhole Wiessner wife Wilmsen woman women Xashe Yellen young