| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Yale agrarian studies |
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Yale agrarian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; A Note on Spelling and Reconstructed Forms; Introduction; 1. The Sources and Settings of Botatwe History; 2. Planting Settlements, Forging the Savanna: Subsistence on the Central Frontier, 1000 BCE to 750 CE; 3. Fame in the Kafue: The Politics of Technology, Talent, and Landscape, 750 to 1250; 4. Of Kith and Kin: Bushcraft and Social Incorporation, 950 to 1250; 5. Life on the Central Frontier: The Geographies of Technology, Trade, and Prestige, 750 to 1700; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia. Contrary to popular conceptions that place farming at the heart of political and social change, political innovation in precolonial African farming societies was actually contingent on developments in hunting, fishing, and foraging, as de Luna reveals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 9, 2016) |
| Subject |
Subsistence economy -- Africa, Central
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Subsistence economy -- Africa, Southern
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Subsistence economy
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Central Africa
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Southern Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Colson, Elizabeth, 1917-2016, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780300225167 |
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0300225164 |
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