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The Hadza : hunter-gatherers of Tanzania / Frank W. Marlowe.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marlowe, Frank, 1954-
- Series:
- Origins of human behavior and culture ; 3.
- Origins of human behavior and culture ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hatsa (African people)--Hunting.
- Hatsa (African people).
- Hatsa (African people)--Food.
- Hatsa (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Hunting and gathering societies--Tanzania.
- Hunting and gathering societies.
- Social ecology--Tanzania.
- Social ecology.
- Social evolution--Tanzania.
- Social evolution.
- Tanzania--Social life and customs.
- Tanzania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography-subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to introduce readers to the more contemporary field of behavioral ecology, which attempts to understand human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. To that end, The Hadza also articulates the necessary background for readers whose exposure to human evolutionary theory is minimal.
- Contents:
- The Hadza and evolutionary theory : an introduction
- Habitat and history
- Social organization, beliefs, and practices
- Material culture
- Foraging
- Life history
- Mating
- Parenting
- Cooperation and food-sharing
- The median foragers : humans in cross-species perspective
- Afterward : the Hadza present and future.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612772719
- 9781282772717
- 1282772716
- 9780520945449
- 0520945441
- OCLC:
- 646788649
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