Collecting food, cultivating people : subsistence and society in Central Africa /
De Luna, Kathryn Michelle,
Collecting food, cultivating people : subsistence and society in Central Africa / Kathryn M. de Luna ; foreword by Elizabeth Colson. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780300225167
Subsistence economy--Africa, Central.
Subsistence economy--Africa, Southern.
Electronic Books.
HC945 / .C655 2016
Collecting food, cultivating people : subsistence and society in Central Africa / Kathryn M. de Luna ; foreword by Elizabeth Colson. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780300225167
Subsistence economy--Africa, Central.
Subsistence economy--Africa, Southern.
Electronic Books.
HC945 / .C655 2016