Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers: An African Perspective.

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List of illustrations List of contributors 1. Cultural diversity among African foragers: causes and implications Susan Kent Part I. Southern African Foragers: 2. Neither are your ways my ways George Silberbauer 3. Diversity and flexibility: the case of the Bushmen of Southern Africa Mathias Guenther 4. Nharo and Hai//om settlement patterns in comparative perspective Alan Barnard and Thomas Widlok 5. Kua: farmer/foragers of the eastern Kalahari, Botswana Helga Vierich and Robert Hitchcock 6. Hunting variability at a recently sedentary Kalahari village Susan Kent Part II. Eastern African Foragers: 7. The global process and local ecology: how should we explain differences between the Hadza and the !Kung? Nicholas Blurton Jones, Kristen Hawkes and James O'Connell 8. Fission, fusion, and foragers in East Africa: micro- and macroprocesses of diversity and integration among Okiek groups Roderic Blackburn Part III. Central African Foragers: 9. Cultural diversity among African pygmies Barry Hewlett 10. A comparative approach to hunting rituals among Baka Pygmies (southeastern Cameroon) Daou V. Joiris 11. Cultural diversity in the use of plants by the Mbuti hunter-gatherers in northeastern Zaire: an ethnobotanical approach Mitsuo Ichikawa and Hideaki Terashima Part IV. Commentary: 12. Hunter-gatherer research and cultural diversity Nurit Bird-David References Index.