San Cultural

ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

San

According to Cultural Anthropology by Nowak, B., & Laird, P. (2010) the San people, a

foraging tribe in Africa, are traditionally a band society made up of family and relatives.

Foraging bands such as the san survive by going where there is an abundance of food and water.

They practice a gender based division of labor just like many other foraging bands, primarily

with women caring for children and foraging for vegetation and men hunting and providing other

skills such as tool making. The san people are also leisurely people who enjoy each other's

company and heavily rely on each other. Social ties are considered very important in band

society because no one can simply be in it for his own benefit.

The kinship system in this...