Collecting food, cultivating people : subsistence and society in Central Africa
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : De Luna Kathryn Michelle ;
- Editeurs : New Haven London Yale university press ;
- Date d'édition : [2016]
- ISBN : 978-0-300-21853-4
- Sujets : Économie de subsistance -- Afrique centrale, Économie de subsistance, Chasseurs-cueilleurs, Agriculture, Africa, CentralAfrica, Southern
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii, 332 p.), : Ill., cartes, couv. ill., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Yale agrarian studies series
Notes
Existe aussi en version électronique ; Notes bibliogr. p. 257-297. Bibliogr. p. 299-326. Index
Résumé
'A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa. Using linguistic, archaeological, and other evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of subsistence 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 food collection.'