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Collecting Food, Cultivating People
Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
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Kathryn M. de Luna
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
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.
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.
Author / Editor information
Kathryn M. de Luna is assistant professor of history at Georgetown University, where she specializes in the history of precolonial Africa. She lives in Braddock Heights, MD.
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September 27, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780300225167
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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360
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21 b-w illus.
