Cultural Diversity among Twentieth-Century Foragers

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.