The Dobe Ju/’Hoansi (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology): Richard B. Lee: 9781111828776


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Publication Date: February 27, 2012 ISBN-10: 1111828776 ISBN-13 :978-1111828776 Edition: 4
This classic, best-selling study Sai Kung San, foraging in the Kalahari Desert DOBE area to describe a person’s reaction to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively new change! Effort rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage and kinship system. It records their determination to maintain their own destiny, their habitat and relentless development, in order to safeguard their political rights and revitalize their community’s development. The use of the name Ju / hoansi (meaning “real people”) recognize their sense of power. Since the third edition, published in 2003, Richard Lee made ​​eight further trips in the Kalahari, recently time in 2010 and 2011 the multi-Tony and Nyae Nyae region continues to transform and people have to cope with and adapt to the pressure, economic and bureaucratic governance of state capitalism in Namibia and Botswana. Fourth Edition chronicler and witness these changing social conditions and the ranking of their life / ‘hoansi.