The Structure of an African Pastoralist Community

This book is about the ecology and population dynamics of a group of cattle- and goat-herders in the northern Kalahari Desert of the Ngamiland District of Botswana. Although the Herero arrived in the region less than a century ago as destitute refugees, these staunchly traditional Bantu speakers have established themselves as a prominent and prosperous tribe in a pocket of the Kalahari previously occupied almost exclusively by Kung-speaking foragers. Their rise to economic prominence...
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This book is about the ecology and population dynamics of a group of cattle- and goat-herders in the northern Kalahari Desert of the Ngamiland District of Botswana. Although the Herero arrived in the region less than a century ago as destitute refugees, these staunchly traditional Bantu speakers have established themselves as a prominent and prosperous tribe in a pocket of the Kalahari previously occupied almost exclusively by Kung-speaking foragers. Their rise to economic prominence in Botswana has been accompanied by dramatic decreases in mortality and increases in fertility, and a resurgence of tribal ethnicity.