Collecting Food, Cultivating People : Subsistence and Society in Central Africa / Kathryn M. de Luna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Luna, Kathryn M., Author.

Contributor:

Louis Stern Memorial Fund, associated with work.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subsistence economy--Africa, Central.

Subsistence economy.

Central Africa.

Southern Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

3. Fame in the Kafue

4. Of Kith and Kin

5. Life on the Central Frontier

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300225167

0300225164

OCLC:

957590266