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The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

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ISBN: 9780030322846 | 0030322847
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 8/1/1993

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SummaryTable of Contents
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.
Forewordiii
Preface to the Second Editionvii
Preface to the First Editionx
A Note on the Ju Languagexi
Acknowledgmentsxii
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The Ju/'hoansi
1(8)
Introduction: A Voyage of Discovery
1(2)
A Waterhole Called Dobe
3(6)
The People of the Dobe Area
9(14)
Who Are the San?
10(1)
Studies of the San
11(1)
The Dobe Area
12(1)
Exploring the Dobe Area
13(5)
A History of Contact
18(5)
Environment and Settlement
23(16)
The Dune and Molapo System
24(3)
Water Sources
26(1)
Fauna
27(2)
Climate
29(2)
The Seasonal Round
29(2)
Settlement Patterns
31(8)
Village Types
33(1)
The Layout of the Camp
34(2)
Hut and Shelter Construction
36(1)
Ethnoarcheology
36(3)
Subsistence: Foraging for a Living
39(22)
Gathering and Carrying
42(8)
Carrying Devices
42(3)
Major and Minor Foods
45(3)
Food Classes and Subsistence Strategy
48(2)
Hunting
50(4)
Tools and Techniques
50(2)
The Joys of Tracking
52(2)
Insulting the Meat
54(2)
Work Effort and Caloric Returns
56(4)
The Quality and Quantity of the Diet
59(1)
Ju/'hoansi Subsistence: Affluence or Anxiety?
60(1)
Kinship and Social Organization
61(18)
Ju/'hoansi Living Groups
62(4)
The Kinship System
66(10)
Kinship I
66(5)
Kinship II: Names and the Name Relationship
71(3)
Kinship III: The Principle of Wi
74(2)
/Tontah Meets/Tontah
76(3)
Marriage and Sexuality
79(14)
The Arrangement of Marriages
79(3)
The Marriage-by-Capture Ceremony
82(2)
Plural Marriage and Remarriage
84(3)
Intergroup Alliance and Conflict
87(1)
The ``Marriage'' of/Tontah
88(2)
Sexuality
90(2)
Male and Female Among the !Kung
92(1)
Conflict, Politics, and Exchange
93(16)
Ownership and Leadership
93(3)
The Problem of the Headman
94(2)
A Fight about Adultery
96(1)
Laughter and Danger
96(3)
Deadly Combat: Ju/'hoan Style
99(3)
The End of the Fighting
102(1)
Hxaro Exchange
103(6)
Coping with Life: Religion, World View, and Healing
109(16)
The World of the //gangwasi
110(5)
High God---Low God
112(1)
How Ancestors Become Enemies
113(2)
N/um and the Giraffe Dance
115(4)
Becoming a Healer
117(2)
The Women's Drum Dance
119(2)
Three Medicines: One Blood
121(4)
The Ju/'hoansi and Their Neighbors
125(10)
Introducing the Herero and the Tswana
125(2)
Ecological Change
127(2)
Work Relations
129(2)
Intermarriage
131(1)
Swara and the Sarwa
132(3)
Perceptions and Directions of Social Change
135(18)
Perceptions of the White Man
137(4)
Transition to Farming and Herding
141(3)
The Case of Debe and Bo
143(1)
Wage Work and Migrant Labor
144(2)
The First School
146(2)
Government and the Future
148(5)
The Ju/'hoansi Today
153(16)
Dobe: Three Decades of Change
154(1)
Life in the 1990s
155(5)
Nyae Nyae: A Struggle for Survival
160(2)
The Plastic Stone Age
162(1)
Independence and After
163(1)
The Nyae Nyae Foundation and the Farmers' Coop
164(1)
The Land Question: A Victory for the Ju/'hoansi
164(5)
Anthropological Practice and Lessons of the Ju/'hoansi
169(8)
The Changing Image of the Ju/'hoansi
173(4)
Postscript: The /Gwihaba Dancers177(6)
Appendix: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari183(6)
Glossary of Ju/'hoan and Other Non-English Terms189(2)
Films of the Ju/'hoansi-!Kung: An Annotated List191(4)
References Cited and Recommended Readings195(7)
Index202

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