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HumanitiesAnthropologyHistoryEnvironmental AnthropologyEnvironmental HistoryIndigenous StudiesAgricultural HistoryFood HistoryForaging EcologySubsistence PatternsSubsistence PracticesSubsistence StrategiesForaging EconomiesForaging PracticesHunter-gatherer Plant SubsistenceHunting TerritoryNutritional Stress IndicatorsOrthographyPlantation HistorySubsistence Ecology
List of tables and figures Preface Note on orthography Introduction: !Kung ecology and society 1. Fieldwork with the !Kung 2. San, Bushman, Basarwa: a question of names 3. The Dobe area: its people and their history 4. The environment 5. Technology and the organisation of production 6. An inventory of plant resources 7. The mongongo 8. Hunting 9. Men, women and work 10. The allocation of nutritional stress 11. Production and reproduction 12. Ownership, leadership and the use of space 13. Conflict and violence 14. Economic and social change in the 1960s and 1970s 15. The lessons of the !Kung Appendix A-E Bibliography Index.