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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.
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