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by
Richard Borshay Lee (Author)
For most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among theKung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, theKung 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 theyKung 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. TheKung 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 contemporaryKung 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.
Number of Pages: 556Dimensions: 1.24 x 9 x 6 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: December 12, 1979
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