Introducing the !Kung SanDobe Juhoansi.ppt

Introducing the !Kung SanDobe Ju/’hoansi People of Dobe Language Environmental Adaptations Settlement Ethnography by Richard Lee 1963 as part of his dissertation research Learn about foragers as most “basic” of humans. Common “core” of features. Learn customs and culture in evolutionary context. Also address questions of ethnoarchaeology. Dobe Area People of Dobe Hottentots (Khoi) Herders of goats and cattle San “Bushmen” Term bushmen racist and sexist Dutch-16th century European settlemen Genocidal warfare against San Remaining pushed to marginal zones of the Kalahari desert. ~ 112,000 San today People of Dobe “Yellow” San Indigenous of South Africa Click Language Hunter-gatherers, farmers, herders and wage labor. Short, lighter skin, deep chested, delicate facial features. “Black” San Genetically similar to Bantu Mixed herding, farming, wage labor and some foraging. Taller, darker skin, stronger facial features. Studies of San Lawrence and Lorna Marshall Nyae Nyae 1951 Silberbauer, Tanaka, Cashdan, Kent /Gwi Bleek, Guenther, Barnard Nharo Lee, Devore (Kalahari Research Group) Ju/’hoansi Prehistory of San People living in that area of South Africa as early as 50 thousand years ago (and probably earlier). Debate: San are actually pastoralists who fled Bantu overlords and became foragers. Archaeological evidence suggests continuity between present day San and prehistoric people. No historic documentation of this. San Language Unusual sounds called clicks. / = dental click (as in “tsk, tsk”) ≠ = alveolar click (tongue on sides of teeth) ! = alveopalatal click (tongue on roof of mouth) // = lateral click (as in urging on a horse) /ngm/0102/online_extra.html Kinship Definition-a culturally defined relationship established on the basis of blood ties or marriage. Consanguineal Kin-those people related by blood (blood relations). related to concept of parentage. blood is not such a great term but it gets the idea across. Affinal-related by marriage. Kinship Diagram fo