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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. Since the publication of the Third Edition in 2003, Richard Lee has made eight further trips to the Kalahari, the most recent in 2010 and 2011. The Dobe and Nyae Nyae Areas have continued to transform and the people have had to respond and adapt to the pressures of capitalist economics and bureaucratic governance of the Namibian and Botswana states. This Fourth Edition chronicles and bears witness to these evolving social conditions and their impacts on lives of the Ju/'hoansi.

Foreword	p. iii
Author's Preface to the Fourth Edition	p. viii
Author's Preface to the Third Edition	p. ix
Author's Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Author's Preface to the First Edition	p. xiv
A Note on the Ju Language	p. xvi
A Note on Multimedia Sources	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Ju/'hoansi	p. 1
... MOREIntroduction: A Voyage of Discovery	p. 1
A Waterhole Called Dobe	p. 3
The People of the Dobe Area	p. 9
Who Are the San?	p. 11
Studies of the San	p. 11
The Dobe Area	p. 14
Exploring the Dobe Area	p. 15
A History of Contact	p. 19
Environment and Settlement	p. 25
The Dune and Molapo System	p. 26
Water Sources	p. 27
Fauna	p. 28
Climate	p. 31
The Seasonal Round	p. 31
Settlement Patterns	p. 35
Village Types	p. 35
The Layout of the Camp	p. 37
Hut and Shelter Construction	p. 38
Ethnoarcheology	p. 39
Subsistence: Foraging for a Living	p. 41
Gathering and Carrying	p. 44
Carrying Devices	p. 45
Major and Minor Foods	p. 48
Food Classes and Subsistence Strategy	p. 51
Hunting	p. 51
Tools and Techniques	p. 53
The Joys of Tracking	p. 53
Insulting the Meat	p. 56
Work Effort and Caloric Returns	p. 58
The Quality and Quantity of the Diet	p. 61
Ju/'hoansi Subsistence: Affluence or Anxiety?	p. 63
Kinship and Social Organization	p. 65
Ju/'hoansi Living Groups	p. 67
The Kinship System	p. 70
Kinship I	p. 71
Kinship II: Names and the Name Relationship	p. 76
Kinship III: The Principle of Wi	p. 79
Tontah Meets /Tontah	p. 81
Marriage and Sexuality	p. 85
The Arrangement of Marriages	p. 86
The Marriage-by-Capture Ceremony	p. 88
Plural Marriage and Remarriage	p. 91
Intergroup Alliance and Conflict	p. 94
The "Marriage" of/Tontah	p. 95
Sexuality	p. 97
Male and Female Among the Ju/'hoansi	p. 99
Complaint Discourse: Aging and Caregiving Among the Ju/'hoansi	p. 101
Introduction	p. 101
Aging and Social Change in Ju/'hoan Society	p. 104
Field Research on Aging: The 1986-1987 Project	p. 107
Complaint Discourse	p. 107
Narratives of Neglect and Abandonment	p. 110
Chu!ko's Story	p. 110
Kasupe's Story	p. 112
Entitlement	p. 115
The Social Organization of Care	p. 116
Conclusion: The Paradox of Sharing and Complaining	p. 119
Future Prospects: How Will "Development" Affect Caregiving?	p. 119
Conflict, Politics, and Exchange	p. 121
Ownership and Leadership	p. 121
The Problem of the Headman	p. 122
A Fight about Adultery	p. 124
Laughter and Danger	p. 125
Deadly Combat: Ju/'hoan Style	p. 127
The End of the Fighting	p. 130
Hxaro Exchange	p. 130
Coping with Life: Religion, World View, and Healing	p. 137
The World of the //Gangwasi	p. 138
High God-Low God	p. 141
How Ancestors Become Enemies	p. 142
N/um and the Giraffe Dance	p. 143
Becoming a Healer	p. 145
The Women's Drum Dance	p. 148
Three Medicines: One Blood	p. 150
The Ju/'hoansi and Their Neighbors	p. 155
Introducing the Herero and the Tswana	p. 156
Ecological Change	p. 158
Work Relations	p. 158
Intermarriage	p. 161
Swara and the Sarwa	p. 162
Perceptions and Directions of Social Change	p. 165
Perceptions of the White Man	p. 167
Transition to Farming and Herding	p. 171
The Case of Debe and Bo	p. 173
Wage Work and Migrant Labor	p. 174
The First School	p. 177
Government and the Future	p. 179
The Ju/'hoansi Today	p. 183
Dobe: Three Decades of Change	p. 184
Life in the 2000s	p. 186
Nyae Nyae: A Straggle for Survival	p. 190
The Plastic Stone Age	p. 192
Independence and After	p. 193
The Nyae Nyae Foundation and the Farmers' Co-op	p. 194
The Land Question: A Victory for the Ju/'hoansi	p. 195
Ju/'hoansi in the New Millennium: Progress and Poverty	p. 199
Small Victories	p. 203
Regional Developments: Mandela and After	p. 207
The Challenge of HIV/AIDS	p. 208
Postscript: Bau Then and Now	p. 210
Tsumkwe at 50: The 2010 Social Survey of a Namibian Ju/'hoan Town	p. 215
A Brief History	p. 215
Methods	p. 218
Subsistence Strategies: Reliance on Wild, Farmed, or Store Bought Food	p. 218
Degree of Dependence on the Cash Economy	p. 219
Health Issues: Malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS	p. 220
Religious Practices: Indigenous or Missionary Derived	p. 221
Education: Levels of Schooling	p. 222
Attitudes Towards Old and New Ways of Life: Do You Like the Bush?	p. 223
Shebeens: Conviviality, or the Road to Ruin?	p. 225
Conclusions	p. 226
Anthropological Practice and Lessons of the Ju/'hoansi	p. 229
The Changing Image of the Ju/'hoansi	p. 234
Science (Re)Discovers Equality	p. 236
Postscript: The/Gwihaba Dancers	p. 239
Eating Christmas in the Kalahari	p. 245
The Kalahari Debate: Ju/'hoan Images of the Colonial Encounter	p. 253
Glossary of Ju/'hoan and Other Non-English Terms	p. 269
Films and Media on the Ju/'hoansi: An Annotated List	p. 271
References Cited and Recommended Readings	p. 277
Index	p. 287
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