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Hadza

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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender

Alternative Names

Alternative names are Hadzabe, Hadzapi, Hatsa, Tindiga, Watindiga, Wakindiga, and Kangeju.

Location

The Hadza live around Lake Eyasi, North Tanzania, Africa, located at latitude 3°S, longitude 35°E.

Cultural Overview

The Hadza are nomadic hunter-gatherers who live in a savanna-woodland habitat around Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania (Woodburn, 1968a). They number about 1,000 (Blurton Jones, O’Connell, Hawkes, Kamuzora, & Smith, 1992), of whom many are still full-time foragers, and the others are part-time foragers with virtually none practicing any kind of agriculture. Men collect honey and use bows and arrows to hunt mammals and birds. Women dig wild tubers and gather baobab fruit and berries. Camps usually have about 30 people and move about every month or so in response to the availability of water and berries and a variety of other reasons, such as a death.

The Hadza are very egalitarian and have no political structure, indeed they have no specialists of any sort (

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Marlowe, F. (2003). Hadza. In: Ember, C.R., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29907-6_43

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