| Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa Contributor(s): de Luna, Kathryn M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300218532 ISBN-13: 9780300218534 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historical Geography - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Africa - Central |
| Dewey: 306.309 |
| Series: Yale Agrarian Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |