The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter—gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography—subsiste...