ECONOMIC:

* Agriculture plays an important role in there diet, mainly 70% of their diet contains of vegetables which provides a balance of sufficient protein, vitamin, and minerals.

* Roles of merchants gave the San people food and clothes and tools for daily living like shovels, knifes, bows and arrows, and blankets for the cold nights

* Most Khoisan gathering and hunting peoples had long ago been absorbed or misplaced by the arrival of Bantu-speaking peoples bearing agriculture, domesticated animals, and iron tools, but the San, living in a relatively remote location, traded agricultural goods and sometimes worked for the Bantu-speaking peoples.

* Landlords would keep track of how far they would migrate and they would keep track of how many people they could have in their tribe along with the water supply and who they were allowed to trade with

* They really didn’t manufacture, but they traded a lot to look for supplies and items to maintain stability in their lifestyle like bows and arrows, knifes, spears, and arrows tipped with poison

* There was no technology in their tribe they got food from the items that they made from basic sticks and animals

* The tribes traded from other people internationally when they traded with people from the northern Kalahari semi desert areas.

* Men were mainly used for hunting while the women were used for gathering the 200 types of different edible vegetables

Social:

* They were organized with camps across a wide area and connected by ties of exchange and kinship, individual families were in these camps * Since people were so close together this caused a great amount of communication amongst each other and allowed flexibility to adjust rapidly to the changing seasonal patterns of their desert environment * Families had complex social relationships and had common kinship relations of marriage and had “joking” and “avoidance” relationship that determined the degree of familiarity * Males and Females were divided into two separate jobs, Males were in charge of the meat and to hunt and the females were in charge of the 200 different types of vegetables and were gatherers * It was a rural tribe and had no formal leaders, chiefs, or headmen, decisions were made by individual families after much discussion * Elites were treated just like any other person, if an elite boasts about his/her skills, the masses don’t accept him or her as a successful hunter they would think of him as a man who only thinks of himself and worthless * For leisure they would have dances that were self conducted which were sometimes in trances sometimes called a “war with God”

Political: * The state does not have any central power or leader, the decisions that are often made come from families after long discussions * They wouldn’t have one person decide everything they would have the whole community come together like when they decided to execute some individuals if they did not have enough supplies to take care of them * The foundation was practically self governed the people decided everything and since they had social equality between men and women this created great intentions * Teenagers engaged quite freely in sex play and the concept of female virginity was apparently unknown, as were rape, wife beating, and the sexual double standard * State has no control really the people decide everything, whatever you acquired, you would