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Collecting Food, Cultivating People

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Full Title

Collecting Food, Cultivating People

Author(s)

Kathryn M. de Luna

Edition
ISBN

9780300225167, 9780300218534, 9780300230581

Publisher

Yale University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.