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Demography of the Dobe !Kung (Population and social structure)
Demography of the Dobe Kung - Population and social structure Author:Nancy Howell First published in 1979, this classic study of the population of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana is now reissued. Using methods that are simple and fully illustrated, the author presents empirical descriptions of the fertility, mortality, and marriage patterns of the famous !Kung (now often called zhun /wasi) hunter-gatherers. The... more » new edition includes material on changes in the Kalahari over the past twenty years, changes in the anthropological understanding of population processes, and an account of the author's return to the Kalahari a generation later to revisit old friends.« less