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Collecting Food, Cultivating People

Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016

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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.

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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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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Foreword

    ix
    Elizabeth Colson
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    Acknowledgments

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    A Note on Spelling and Reconstructed Forms

    xvii
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    Introduction

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    1. The Sources and Settings of Botatwe History

    24
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    2. Planting Settlements, Forging the Savanna

    61
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    3. Fame in the Kafue

    93
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    4. Of Kith and Kin

    131
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    5. Life on the Central Frontier

    172
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    Epilogue

    220
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    Appendix

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    Notes

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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September 27, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780300225167
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360
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21 b-w illus.
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This book is in the series
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
This book is in the series
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300225167
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