The Hadza

by Marlowe, Frank W.

• ISBN13: 9780520253421
• ISBN10: 0520253426
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-23
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

InThe 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 Hadzaalso articulates the necessary background for readers whose exposure to human evolutionary theory is minimal.

Author Biography

Frank W.Marlowe is Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Hadza and Evolutionary Theory: An Introduction	p. 1
Habitat and History	p. 11
Social Organization, Beliefs, and Practices	p. 39
Material Culture	p. 69
Foraging	p. 101
Life History	p. 133
Mating	p. 165
Parenting	p. 195
Cooperation and Food-Sharing	p. 225
The Median Foragers: Humans in Cross-Species Perspective	p. 255
Afterword: The Hadza Present and Future	p. 285
References	p. 291
Index	p. 319
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