Kung fotboll

Kung and other foragers

Crowding among hunter-gatherers: the Kung Bushmen.

Highly crowded living conditions exist among the !Kung Bushmen, hunter-gatherers who live on the edges of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. The !Kung appear to be crowded by choice, and biological indicators of stress are absent. Data indicate that residential crowding alone does not produce symptoms of pathological stress.

Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'Hoansi (!Kung).

Birth order has been examined over a wide variety of dimensions in the context of modern populations. A consistent message has been that it is better to be born first. The analysis of birth order in this paper is different in several ways from other investigations into birth order effects. First, we examine the effect of birth order in an egalitarian, small-scale, kin-based society, which has n...

Technological Change and Child Behavior among the !Kung

Room to Maneuver: !Kung Women Cope with Men

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