The Hunters

"The Hunter's: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari" by Richard Borshay Lee In this article Lee questions two major assumptions about the !Kung bushmen. The first is that the !Kung bushmen are dependent on the hunting of game animals. The second is that the hunter gatherer way of life is precarious, unpredictable and generally a struggle. To refute the first assumption, Lee figured out, through research, that vegetables make up 60 to 80 per cent of the Bushmens' …

…they were starving they would be spending a lot more time searching for food. Finally, Lee examines the caloric intake of the Bushmen which closely resembles the required amount (RDA). Lee concludes that the !Kung bushmen of the Kalahari do not necessarily have "short, brutish, and short" lives and they don't depend entirely meat for food. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Spradley, James, and DavidW.Mc Curdy. 1997. Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 9th edition. NewYork: Longman.