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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... waterhole was also famous lo- cally for its Marula nuts , and it was and is the only source of Baobab fruit and Tsin beans in the northern Dobe area . The most interesting of all the waterholes for me was / Xai / xai , which lay 28 ...
... waterhole was also famous lo- cally for its Marula nuts , and it was and is the only source of Baobab fruit and Tsin beans in the northern Dobe area . The most interesting of all the waterholes for me was / Xai / xai , which lay 28 ...
Page 18
... waterhole . A small , inaccessible spring deep in a rock cleft provided the sole source of water for the 35 Ju of Dobe , the one waterhole in the 1960s with no non- ! Kung or livestock resident . Centered around the families of 70 ...
... waterhole . A small , inaccessible spring deep in a rock cleft provided the sole source of water for the 35 Ju of Dobe , the one waterhole in the 1960s with no non- ! Kung or livestock resident . Centered around the families of 70 ...
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... waterhole . Around each waterhole is a bloc of land - the n ! ore - which contains food resources and other waterpoints and which is the ba- sic subsistence area for the resident group . The k " ausi are generally recognized as the ...
... waterhole . Around each waterhole is a bloc of land - the n ! ore - which contains food resources and other waterpoints and which is the ba- sic subsistence area for the resident group . The k " ausi are generally recognized as 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