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The Hadza Frank Marlowe

The Hadza By Frank Marlowe

The Hadza by Frank Marlowe


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The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. This title presents an ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world.

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The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania by Frank Marlowe

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography - subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to introduce readers to the more contemporary field of behavioral ecology, which attempts to understand human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. To that end, The Hadza also articulates the necessary background for readers whose exposure to human evolutionary theory is minimal.

The Hadza Reviews

This quantitative ethnography ... introduces readers to the contemporary field of understanding human behaviour from an evolutionary perspective. Times Higher Ed Supp (Thes) Riveting... It is the most important single source of information about the Hadza, and it is superb, combining many of the virtues of classical ethnography with rigorous quantitative description and experimental hypothesis testing. -- Melvin Konner American Scientist Thought-provoking. Choice

About Frank Marlowe

Frank Marlowe is Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Hadza and Evolutionary Theory: An Introduction
2. Habitat and History
3. Social Organization, Beliefs, and Practices
4. Material Culture
5. Foraging
6. Life History
7. Mating
8. Parenting
9. Cooperation and Food- Sharing
10. The Median Foragers: Humans in Cross- Species Perspective
Afterword: The Hadza Present and Future

References
Index

Additional information

NGR9780520253421
9780520253421
0520253426
The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania by Frank Marlowe
New
Paperback
University of California Press
2010-03-23
336
N/A
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