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Shostak's Nisa

Discussion Led by Susan Sperling

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Reading Assignment

Vintage Edition listed first; Harvard edition noted with (H)

Day 1 (Friday/ September 5)                Topics: Introduction to Hunter-Gatherers;               

Introduction                        1-43                (H) 1-40

Chapter One                       45-63              (H)41-56)   Environment, Subsistence, Group Structure

Introduction to  Chapter Two  65-68           (H)59-62  Archaeology and History                                

Day 2 (Monday/September 8)                    Topics: Kinship (The concept of “We”)

Chapter Three                       81-102             (H)73-92       

Introduction to Chapter Four  105-110            (H)95-99

Chapter Five                         127-145            (H)115-131

Introduction to Chapter Six    147-151            (H)133-136

Chapter Seven                      169-175            (H)151-158

Day 3 (Wednesday/September 10)                Topics: Gender, Sex, The Life Cycle

Introduction to Chapter Eight    177-182            (H)159-164

Introduction to Chapter Nine     201-205            (H)181-190

Chapter Eleven                     237-263                (H)213-235

Chapter Twelve                    265-288                (H)237-257

Day 4 (Friday/September 12)                Topics: Ritual, the future(s) of “First Peoples”

Chapter Thirteen                 291-303                (H)259-270

Epilogue                                345-371            (H)309-332

Recommended Reading:

Lee, R. (2002). The Dobe Ju/Hoansi - (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology).  International Thomson Publishing. (Description and preview available at Amazon.Com) 
 

Wilmsen, Edwin N. (1989). Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari. xviii, 402 p.  Chicago University Press.  Review Available online: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/3305.ctl

Electronic Resources

Hill, K., Hurtado. A. (1989) Hunter-Gatherers of the New World. American Scientist. Vol. 77.  September - October. Available online: http://www.unm.edu/~kimhill/papers/hill1989a.pdf

Klinghardt, G. (1998) Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa. Iziko museums of cape town. 2001. Available online: http://www.museums.org.za/sam/resource/arch/hunters.htm

Kalahari's Peoples Fund. (2003) http://www.kalaharipeoples.org/

Lamont, James (2002) Last stand of the Kalahari's hunter-gatherers.  Financial Times, UK,18 May 2002. Available online: http://www.survival-international.org/bush%20press%20ft.htm

Lee, R. (1969) Eating Christmas in the Kalahari. Natural History Magazine. December, 1969. The American Museum of Natural History. Available online: http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:4mOP2zptYzIJ:www.amnh.org/naturalhistory/editors_pick/1299_pick.html+%22Eating+Christmas+in+the+Kalahari%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8