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The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society
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by Richard Borshay Lee


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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.

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  • Title The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society
  • Author Richard Borshay Lee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 556
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1979-12-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780521295611 / 0521295610
  • Weight 1.78 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.24 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.15 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects !Kung (African people), San (African people)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 78-25904
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.089
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