Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung: Food, Fatness, and by Nancy Howell

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By Nancy Howell

Lifestyles Histories of the Dobe !Kung re-examines an enormous anthropological information set for the Dobe !Kung, the well known "Bushmen" of the Kalahari wasteland, accumulated by way of Nancy Howell and associates. utilizing lifestyles background research, Howell reinterprets this wealthy fabric to handle the query of ways those hunter-gatherers hold their particularly sturdy wellbeing and fitness from youth via outdated age within the Kalahari's harsh setting. She divides the inhabitants into lifestyles historical past phases that correlate with predicted chronological a long time and demonstrates how and why they continue to exist, even thrive, on a modest allotment of energy. She describes how surplus foodstuff is produced and allotted, and he or she considers either the factors for the beneficiant sharing she has saw one of the Dobe !Kung and a few evolutionary implications of that habit.

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When the baby is born, the mother will inspect it carefully. She has the option of smothering it and burying it with the afterbirth, if she finds abnormalities or believes that the child will not survive. Most women, of course, have no wish to smother the child they have carried for nine months and have just given birth. They wait until the afterbirth is expelled and bury it. The mother then returns to the village with the baby to announce its name and receive admiration and affection from her spouse and others in the village.

Kung regularly live into their 80s, and there is no reason to believe that the maximum possible old age (life span) is any shorter for them than for people in any other human group. LIFE STAGES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FOR THE POPULATION Having reviewed the ethnographic knowledge of each of the stages of life, we want to summarize this information into a population framework. We do this in three stages: first, we look at the proportion of people in each age and sex group who are in each of the life stages; second, we adjust that information to take into account the different numbers of persons at each age, resulting from death by each age; and third, we put that information into the format of an age-sex pyramid, which we are familiar with from population studies, so we can compare the information on age and on stages of life.

For a few days it may not be clear whether the new marriage has succeeded: One can tell only by listening carefully to the kinship terms that people are using for one another. As long as the girl’s parents are calling the husband “son-in-law” and his parents “co-parents-in-law,” the marriage is still on, but if they give up after a week or so, they will go back to using the kin terms to address one another that they used before the marriage was proposed. Young women may experience several brief “marriages” and “divorces” of this kind before they settle on a husband.

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