Collecting Food, Cultivating People

Download or read book Collecting Food, Cultivating People written by Kathryn Michelle De Luna and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia. Contrary to popular conceptions that place farming at the heart of political and social change, political innovation in precolonial African farming societies was actually contingent on developments in hunting, fishing, and foraging, as de Luna reveals.