The Lion/Bushman relationship in Nyae Nyae in the 1950s: a relationship crafted in the old way

From: Anthropologica | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Keywords: hunter-gatherer, Bushmen, lion, predator, ecology, hunting

This paper concerns the relationship of the hunter-gatherer people of the Kalahari Desert, the Ju/wa(1) Bushmen or Ju/wasi, to some of the predators who also lived there, the lions. The observations derive from work done in the Nyae Nyae area of the Kalahari between 1951 and 1990, but mostly between 1951 and 1956, during which time I personally was in Nyae Nyae for about 26 months. Other members of our group were there much longer. No seasonal variation in the human-predator relationship was observed. The observations herein ...

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