The Hadza

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.

ISBN 0520253426   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780520253421 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 542 Publisher The University Press Group Ltd   Published in CA Imprint University of California Press   Series title Origins of Human Behavior and Culture Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 23 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 306.09678   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate

		Acknowledgments
1		The Hadza and Evolutionary Theory: An Introduction		1
2		Habitat and History		11
3		Social Organization, Beliefs, and Practices		39
4		Material Culture		69
5		Foraging		101
6		Life History		133
7		Mating		165
8		Parenting		195
9		Cooperation and Food-Sharing		225
10		The Median Foragers: Humans in Cross-Species Perspective		255
		Afterword: The Hadza Present and Future		285
		References		291
		Index		319

"This quantitative ethnography ... introduces readers to the contemporary field of understanding human behaviour from an evolutionary perspective."--Times Higher Ed Supp (Thes) "Riveting... It is the most important single source of information about the Hadza, and it is superb, combining many of the virtues of classical ethnography with rigorous quantitative description and experimental hypothesis testing. "--American Scientist "Thought-provoking."--Choice

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