The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society
Richard Borshay Lee’s anthropological study depicts the !Kung San hunter-gatherer society through long-term fieldwork. Moving between historical perspective and close observation, it shows the relation between ecology and social organization.
Work Information
Long-term fieldwork reveals the social world of the !Kung San.
Richard Borshay Lee's The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society is a large-scale ethnography that understands !Kung San life as an interplay of environment, labor, family, and social relations. Backed by substantial fieldwork, it revises how hunter-gatherer societies are understood.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1979-12-12
- Pages
- 560 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.6 x 4.3 x 23.4 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780521225786
- ISBN-10
- 0521225787
- Price
- 24592 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Anthropology/Cultural
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.
Reviews
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Arrived early in good condition.
One side of the great Kalahari debate - good book, great detail about Lee's point of view.
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Service couldn't be better
Superfast delivery from USA, superwell packaged book and well priced. Excellent all around. Now for "The !Kung San......."
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a textbook
Not easy reading - needs to be read carefully. A very detailed record of several years research living with the san. But the only book to give you the real life of these people.