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Title: | Hunters of the Northern East African Coast: Origins and Historical Processes |
Author: | Stiles, Daniel |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 848-862 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Somalia Kenya Tanzania |
Subjects: | hunter-gatherers Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159358 |
Abstract: | From linguistic and cultural features, one can define three basic population groups existing today along the northern East African coast that until relatively recently possessed a primarily hunting-gathering subsistence economy. They are the Boni, the Dahalo, and the Wata. There are three theories that have been proposed to explain the origins of these coastal hunting groups: the survivor theory, the recent origins theory, and a theory based on historical linguistic data. These theories are not mutually exclusive and the truth is probably realised in a complex mosaic made up of elements of all three. The hunting peoples of the coast have persisted until the present because they occupied a needed place in the human ecology and economy of the coastal region. Map, notes, ref., French sum. |