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Title: | Hunting reputations: talent, individuals, and community in precolonial south central Africa |
Author: | De Luna, Kathryn M. |
Year: | 2012 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537) |
Volume: | 53 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 279-299 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | hunting linguistics precolonial period |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S002185371200045X |
Abstract: | The familiar mystique of African hunters was not a foregone conclusion to the practitioners, dependents, and leaders who created it. Late in the first millennium, Botatwe farmers' successful adoption of cereals and limited cattle sustained the transformation of hunting from a generalist's labour into a path to distinction. Throughout the second millennium, the basis of hunters' renown diversified as trade intensified, new political traditions emerged, and, eventually, the caravan trade and mfecane ravaged established communities. The story of Botatwe hunters reveals a longue durée history of local notables and the durability of affective, social dimensions of recognition in the face of changes in the material, political, and technological basis sustaining such status. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |