The Structure of an African Pastoralist Community
Demography, History, and Ecology of the Ngamiland Herero
Series: Research Monographs in Human Population Biology; 11;
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 12 August 1993
- ISBN 9780198522867
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 245x163x2 mm
- Weight 628 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line drawings, tables 0
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Short description:
This book is about the ecology and population dynamics of a group of cattle- and goat-herders in the northern Kalahari Desert of the Ngamiland District of Botswana. Although the Herero arrived in the region less than a century ago as destitute refugees, these staunchly traditional Bantu speakers have established themselves as a prominent and prosperous tribe in a pocket of the Kalahari previously occupied almost exclusively by Kung-speaking foragers. Their rise to economic prominence in Botswana has been accompanied by dramatic decreases in mortality and increases in fertility, and a resurgence of tribal ethnicity.
MoreLong description:
This book is about the ecology and population dynamics of a group of cattle and goat herders in the northern Kalahari Desert ofthe Ngamiland district of Botswana. Although the Herero arrived in this region less than a century ago as destitute refugees, these staunchly traditional Bantu speakers have established themselves as a prominent and prosperous tribe in a pocket of the Kalahari previously occupied almost exclusively by Kung-speaking foragers. Their rise to economic prominence in Botswana has been accompanied by dramatic decreases in mortality and increases in fertility, and a resurgence of tribal ethnicity.
The demographic data were collected through intense ethnographic interviews of over 700 Herero living north-western Botswana. Studies such as this illustrate the trade-offs between large-scale censuses that traditional demographers are comfortable with and small qualitative studies familiar to anthropologists and sociologists. Statistics from large national or regional studies that blur distinctions among genetically, historically, and economically different groups may not reveal much about the processes that generated them because differences within groups are confounded by differences between groups. For example, Herero mortality rates are low by the national standards of Botswana, yet those of their neighbours the Kung Bushmen are relatively high. Neither the difference between the ethnic groups nor their causes is apparent from the census data alone. The methods of study and the use of traditional Herero names allowed the authors to date with confidence the years of birth of informants and the years of vital events of their family members in a part of the world where this information is generally unknown.
'They have produced what is almost certainly the most innovative and original volume yet to appear. This is a very good book ... a significant methodological contribution to demography and to our interpretation of African population structures. It is not overpriced, as prices go these days, and well worth buying.'
George T. Nurse, Annals of Human Biology, 1994, vol. 21, No. 6
Table of Contents:
Introduction and background
Field-work and methods
Infant and childhood mortality
Mortality after early childhood
Measures of fertility, past and present
Causes of fertility transition
Life history and marriage
Child fosterage and social parenthood
Herero and Kung comparative demography
History and population change
