Demography of the Dobe !Kung

Howell (sociology, University of Toronto) reports on observations of a small group of people in the Kalahari region in the 1960s, asking whether this group can be considered an example of the hunting and gathering way of life of prehistoric times. Examines mortality and fertility among the group, population growth rates, and the ethnography and demography of their marriage system. The first edition was published in 1979. This second edition integrates changes in the anthropological understanding of population process, and offers an account of the author's return a generation later. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.