ANT102H5 Chapter 4: Richard B. Lee Chapter 4 Notes
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Lee chapter 4: subsistence: foraging for a living. Vegetable food mainstay of their diet, not meat. Ju/"hoan women highly skilled at distinguishing useful from nonuseful or dangerous plants and finding and bringing home sufficient quantities. Used to dig out roots and bulbs. Used in hunting to dig out burrowing mammals. Carrying device to transport large roots impaled or suspended from it with twine. Remaining non-root 75% of vegetable diet (fruits, nuts) no special gathering tools are used. Carrying involves use of several multipurpose containers and an elaborate body of knowledge. Leather bags: both males and females wear small handbags over shoulder and under armpit for keeping handy tobacco, tire-making kits, sewing material and other items. Carrying net: knotted net called /wisi lined with long grass and used to carry nuts and berries. Carrying yoke: (!garo) made from rough wooden branch. : full bags, nets, bundles of meat and haunches of freshly killed game.
