Collecting food, cultivating people : subsistence and society in Central Africa / Kathryn M. de Luna ; foreword by Elizabeth Colson.
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 i...
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2016.
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| Series: | Yale agrarian studies.
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Table of 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.