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Collecting food, cultivating people [electronic resource] : subsistence and society in Central Africa / Kathryn M. de Luna ; foreword by Elizabeth Colson

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De Luna, Kathryn Michelle
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
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xvii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Contents
The Sources and Settings of Botatwe History -- Planting Settlements, Forging the Savanna: Subsistence on the Central Frontier, 1000 BCE to 750 CE -- Fame in the Kafue: The Politics of Technology, Talent, and Landscape, 750 to 1250 -- Of Kith and Kin: Bushcraft and Social Incorporation, 950 to 1250 -- Life on the Central Frontier: The Geographies of Technology, Trade, and Prestige, 750 to 1700.
Summary
"A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa. Using linguistic, archaeological, and other evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of subsistence 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 food collection." -- Provided by publisher
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0300218532
9780300218534 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index.
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