The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society

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...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780521295611
  • Publish Date 12 December 1979
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 19 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Cambridge University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 556
  • Language English