The Adaptation of the Ju/’hoansi Over the Course of 50 Years
In the Dobe Ju/’hoansi written by Richard Lee, Lee writes about a small group called Ju/’hoansi, they know to be one of the world’s best-documented foraging society. Lee was in the field for nearly fifty years working to learning and experiencing their culture, their way of living, seeing their values. Throughout the visits over the years, he got to see the changes happening first on hand. Throughout the book, Lee addresses several values that are important to the Ju/’hoansi’s way of living and how the globalization takes effect over the year he has visited. In this paper, I argue that even with the changes entering their lives and their camps over the years their value of adaptation …show more content…
The Ju/’hoansi seasons are divided into five seasons, which lead they varied of village types they have to adapt to over the years. The first type of village the Ju/’hoansi adapt to was the dry season village. The dry season village was in the seasons of !Huma and !Gaa. For these villages, the Ju/’hoansi would only occupy for a few months. Since the season is dry they try to mobilize around water sources. The next type of village they adapt to was the rainy season village. These villages, test how mobilized the could be, by moving around seasonal food and water sources. Because these villages were not occupied for very long at the most three months. The Ju/’hoansi’s had to be adaptable because during this time(season) they could move to 6 or more sites in one season. The next settlement was the spring and fall camps which happened during the drier weather. At this camp, no one builds any huts to do the fact that many of these camps are only occupied for a few weeks as they move on to the next. During the winter they try to adapt to not have access to water sources nearby them, they will form these camps near any still- water sources. For when they are moving around to make new villages, or traveling, they will form what they call overnight stops which is where they only build a fire. For these …show more content…
There were more than 10 plus different crops being planted, tobacco was the most planted crop at camp. Farming was a challenge for them because of the need shade and they need water. With village more, permeant and not need close water sources at that time, the villager should be flexible with the water. Also, from farming, lead to the factor of herding, men did have knowledge and experience with herding cattle from working with nearby camps before globalization entered. Now they are working with their own cattle, and holding cattle for others…. A huge factor because of globalization is that wage work or migrant labor enter the villages. Usually, the most work they would have is hunting and working around the village building new huts, and moving to new villages. Or even help other anthrogiest like Lee with their research. Since the changes entered the villages new jobs came to play, like gold fields. Many of the men would make the travel to out of the village to travel miles away to work for pay, for the first time. One problem that came from working far away from the villages is that there was no way to contact back home, and the village has no way to contact them at work. Work back at the village only lasted a few days, nothing like working in the mines where the men signed 5 to 9-month contracts. The mines even had rules which they are not really used to.
In the Dobe Ju/’hoansi written by Richard Lee, Lee writes about a small group called Ju/’hoansi, they know to be one of the world’s best-documented foraging society. Lee was in the field for nearly fifty years working to learning and experiencing their culture, their way of living, seeing their values. Throughout the visits over the years, he got to see the changes happening first on hand. Throughout the book, Lee addresses several values that are important to the Ju/’hoansi’s way of living and how the globalization takes effect over the year he has visited. In this paper, I argue that even with the changes entering their lives and their camps over the years their value of adaptation …show more content…
The Ju/’hoansi seasons are divided into five seasons, which lead they varied of village types they have to adapt to over the years. The first type of village the Ju/’hoansi adapt to was the dry season village. The dry season village was in the seasons of !Huma and !Gaa. For these villages, the Ju/’hoansi would only occupy for a few months. Since the season is dry they try to mobilize around water sources. The next type of village they adapt to was the rainy season village. These villages, test how mobilized the could be, by moving around seasonal food and water sources. Because these villages were not occupied for very long at the most three months. The Ju/’hoansi’s had to be adaptable because during this time(season) they could move to 6 or more sites in one season. The next settlement was the spring and fall camps which happened during the drier weather. At this camp, no one builds any huts to do the fact that many of these camps are only occupied for a few weeks as they move on to the next. During the winter they try to adapt to not have access to water sources nearby them, they will form these camps near any still- water sources. For when they are moving around to make new villages, or traveling, they will form what they call overnight stops which is where they only build a fire. For these …show more content…
There were more than 10 plus different crops being planted, tobacco was the most planted crop at camp. Farming was a challenge for them because of the need shade and they need water. With village more, permeant and not need close water sources at that time, the villager should be flexible with the water. Also, from farming, lead to the factor of herding, men did have knowledge and experience with herding cattle from working with nearby camps before globalization entered. Now they are working with their own cattle, and holding cattle for others…. A huge factor because of globalization is that wage work or migrant labor enter the villages. Usually, the most work they would have is hunting and working around the village building new huts, and moving to new villages. Or even help other anthrogiest like Lee with their research. Since the changes entered the villages new jobs came to play, like gold fields. Many of the men would make the travel to out of the village to travel miles away to work for pay, for the first time. One problem that came from working far away from the villages is that there was no way to contact back home, and the village has no way to contact them at work. Work back at the village only lasted a few days, nothing like working in the mines where the men signed 5 to 9-month contracts. The mines even had rules which they are not really used to.