Anthropology
How does Ju/'hoansi social organization relate to the subsistence pattern of hunting and collecting? How is Ju/'hoansi society likely to change as the foraging way of life erode?
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Website on the Ju/hoansi
https://www.der.org/kalfam/brief-history-of-change.html
KEY POINTS FOR THE ESSAY WILL INCLUDE:
*These foragers obtain their diet in an average workweek of about 20 hours.
*Their lives are rich in human warmth and aesthetic experience.
*They are able to balance work, love, ritual and play.
*They are often called by anthropologist the original affluent society.
*They depend on the mongongo nut and keep to fairly fixed annual nomadic routes.
*Their groups are small in number.
*Exhaustion of local food resources, conflicts, and desires to visit relatives can break up a group.
*Redistribution of people is essential to their survival.