!Kung-San Lifestyle

The activities in which I am most interested from my reading of the !Kung-San lifestyle are the environment and settlement. I am particularly interested in these aspects of !Kung-San life because they demonstrate the theory we have discussed in class that the environment impacts people as much, if not more, than people impact the environment. I am interested in the way the !Kung-San met the challenges of their harsh environment, because it points to human ingenuity, creativity, and the tendency for adaptability that I find universal in all human beings.

One of the most interesting theories of this work has been the one that argues the environment modifies human lifestyle just as much, if not more, as human beings modify the environment. We clea

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