Life histories of the Dobe !Kung [[electronic resource] ] : food, fatness, and well-being over the life-span / / Nancy Howell

• Autore: Howell Nancy
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 613.2089/961
• Soggetto topico: !Kung (African people) - Food; !Kung (African people) - Nutrition; !Kung (African people) - Health and hygiene; Food habits - Kalahari Desert; Food - Caloric content - Kalahari Desert
• Soggetto non controllato: anthropological data set; anthropology; biographical; bushmen; cultural anthropology; discussion books; dobe kung; ethnographers; evolutionary implications; food; generational; good health; harsh environment; human behavior; human culture; hunter gatherers; kalahari desert; life analysis; life histories; life spans; life stages; low calorie diets; nonfiction; physical anthropology; remote places; retrospective; scientists; sharing culture; sociology anthropology; weight issues
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Another Look at the !Kung: A Life History Approach -- 2. Life History Stages -- 3. Body Size and Growth -- 4. Calories Required -- 5. Caloric Productivity and Caloric Balance -- 6. Caloric Balance and Residential Units: Waterholes, Living Groups, Households -- 7. Kinship Relations as a Support System for Children -- 8. Motives for Sharing Food and Other Prosocial Behavior -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe !Kung, the well-known "Bushmen" of the Kalahari Desert, collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of how these hunter-gatherers maintain their notably good health from childhood through old age in the Kalahari's harsh environment. She divides the population into life history stages that correlate with estimated chronological ages and demonstrates how and why they survive, even thrive, on a modest allotment of calories. She describes how surplus food is produced and distributed, and she considers both the motives for the generous sharing she has observed among the Dobe !Kung and some evolutionary implications of that behavior.
• Titolo autorizzato: Life histories of the Dobe !Kung
• ISBN: 1-282-55620-7; 9786612556203; 0-520-94617-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792599503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Origins of human behavior and culture ; ; 4.