Anthropology, Department of
Date of this Version
October 1973
Abstract
Highly crowded living conditions exist among the !Kung Bushmen, hunter-gatherers who live on the edges of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. The !Kung appear to be crowded by choice, and biological indicators of stress are absent. Data indicate that residential crowding alone does not produce symptoms of pathological stress.
Comments
Published in Science, New Series, Vol. 182, No. 4109, (October 19, 1973), pp. 301–303. Copyright © 1973 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Used by permission.