The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania Volume 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520253421)

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography--subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to introduce readers to the more contemporary field of behavioral ecology, which attempts to understand human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. To that end, The Hadza also articulates the necessary background for readers whose exposure to human evolutionary theory is minimal.

Author: Frank Marlowe
ISBN-10: 0520253426
ISBN-13: 9780520253421
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2010
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2011