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Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples

By Alan Barnard

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0521428653, 978-0521428651
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18585898 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages
337\337
Time added
2019-07-05 08:54:42

Description

The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San "hunters," the Khoekhoe "herders" (in the past called "Hottentots"), and the Damara, also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalihari desert and surrounding areas of Botswana and Namibia. Despite differences in their ways of life, the various groups have much in common, and this book explores these similarities and the influence of environment on their culture and social organization. This is the first book on the Khoisan as a whole to be published since the 1930s.

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