Question 2:
In the paper titled “What Hunters do for a living?” in the Case Studies folder on the moodle for the course, how does the author establish that the lives of the Bushmen that he studies are not “nasty, short and brutish?” What does this say in general about hunter-gatherer societies and their quality of their existence? Do you think that the quality of life as described in the paper qualifies or does not qualify as well-being in the modern sense? Briefly justify your answer.
Answer. the bushman hunter-gatherers what they are doing till now we all were exactly same centuries back .Humans were survived by hunting and gathering wild animals and food. We were living in the environment and with the environment. Now most of the societal …show more content…
In the camp they live fire arms are not there, they wont prefer agriculture rather mostly depends on Hunting and food Gathering. As they are far away from main city they lacks in government policies and on the other hand they won’t pay …show more content…
And hence large are is left. And for there survival they had to do Rigorous hunting and gathering, because of this as per some researcher the average age of hunters is around 45. Although regarding maximum age there is some contradiction by Kung Busmen of Dobe area.
Luck Factor: Hunting is a game and hence is highly unpredictable. Whenever there is a bad luck or they wont find target in there canvas for 2 to 3 weeks or sometime a month. In that free time they are dancing, entertaining, visiting other camps, hunter sharpen there instruments etc.
Food ratio: Although some of us believe that Bushmen survive only on hunting and there life is so nasty. But the basic diet of Bushmen contains 60-80% of annual diet as vegetable and 20-40% of there diet through Hunting. Hunting is high Risk, Low return subsistence activity while gathering is low risk, high return subsistence activity.
Bushmen measures cost of food in terms of time and energy.
1000 calories of meat costs ten men-hours and 1000 calories of vegetable cost four man-hour.
In there food habit they said that life will be boring without meat, they can survive on vegetable but for balanced food they need meat in there
In the paper titled “What Hunters do for a living?” in the Case Studies folder on the moodle for the course, how does the author establish that the lives of the Bushmen that he studies are not “nasty, short and brutish?” What does this say in general about hunter-gatherer societies and their quality of their existence? Do you think that the quality of life as described in the paper qualifies or does not qualify as well-being in the modern sense? Briefly justify your answer.
Answer. the bushman hunter-gatherers what they are doing till now we all were exactly same centuries back .Humans were survived by hunting and gathering wild animals and food. We were living in the environment and with the environment. Now most of the societal …show more content…
In the camp they live fire arms are not there, they wont prefer agriculture rather mostly depends on Hunting and food Gathering. As they are far away from main city they lacks in government policies and on the other hand they won’t pay …show more content…
And hence large are is left. And for there survival they had to do Rigorous hunting and gathering, because of this as per some researcher the average age of hunters is around 45. Although regarding maximum age there is some contradiction by Kung Busmen of Dobe area.
Luck Factor: Hunting is a game and hence is highly unpredictable. Whenever there is a bad luck or they wont find target in there canvas for 2 to 3 weeks or sometime a month. In that free time they are dancing, entertaining, visiting other camps, hunter sharpen there instruments etc.
Food ratio: Although some of us believe that Bushmen survive only on hunting and there life is so nasty. But the basic diet of Bushmen contains 60-80% of annual diet as vegetable and 20-40% of there diet through Hunting. Hunting is high Risk, Low return subsistence activity while gathering is low risk, high return subsistence activity.
Bushmen measures cost of food in terms of time and energy.
1000 calories of meat costs ten men-hours and 1000 calories of vegetable cost four man-hour.
In there food habit they said that life will be boring without meat, they can survive on vegetable but for balanced food they need meat in there