Bushmen: Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers and Their Descendants

by Alan Barnard

Book Overview

The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a unity is not as strange as it may seem, for they share a common origin: they are an original hunter-gatherer population of southern Africa with a history of many thousands of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108406874
• ISBN13: 9781108406871
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.9"