Demography of the Dobe !Kung

First published in 1979, this text is a study of the population of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Using methods that are simple and fully illustrated, the author presents empirical descriptions of the fertility, mortality, and marriage patterns of the famous !Kung hunter-gatherers.

List of contents

1: An Overview of the Population Study of a Hunting and Gathering People; 2: Age Estimation and Age Structure; 3: Causes of Sickness and Death; 4: The Measurement of Mortality; 5: Simulating Mortality; 6: An Overview of !Kung Women’s Fertility: Completed Reproductive Careers; 7: Fertility Performance, 1963–1973; 8: !Kung Fertility Performance in Comparative Perspective; 9: Primary and Secondary Sterility: Normal and Pathological Causes; 10: Fatness and Fertility; 11: Population Size, Growth Rates, and the Age Distribution: Simulations of Fertility and Mortality; 12: Marriage and Remarriage Among the !Kung; 13: Fertility Performance of !Kung Men; 14: The Simulation of Fertility Within Marriage; 15: Social Structural Implications of Demographic Parameters: Kinship Ties and Kinship Groups; 16: Genetic Implications of !Kung Demography; 17: History and Future of the Dobe !Kung Population

About the author

Nancy Howell is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Toronto.

Summary

First published in 1979, this is a classic study of the population of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Deselt of Botswana

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Howell, Howell Nancy, Howel Nancy
• Assisted by: Nancy Howell (Editor), Howell Nancy (Editor), J. Mayone Stycos (Editor), J.mayone Stycos (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2001
• EAN: 9780202306506
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30650-6
• No. of pages: 434
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Botswana, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Population & demography, Population and Demography