Cry of the Kalahari other African carnivores. "Cry of the Kalahari" is the personal story of the Owens' encounters with these and a myriad of other animals and depicts their own struggle to live and work in such an inhospitable and unforgiving environment. "Cry of the Kalahari" was a national and international bestseller, translated into seven languages and is the 1985 John Burroughs Medal winner. Cry of the Kalahari Cry of the Kalahari (1984) is an autobiographical book detailing two young American zoologists, Mark and Delia Owens, and their experience studying wildlife in the Kalahari desert in Botswana in the mid-1970s. There they lived
Kalahari Debate with merchant capital. They believe the San in the Kalahari are a classless society because they are actually the lower class of a greater Kalahari society. The revisionists believe the !Kung San were heavily involved in trade. They believe the San were transformed by centuries of contact with Iron Age, Bantu-speaking agro-pastoralists. This argues against the idea that they were a well-adapted hunter-gatherer culture, but instead advanced only through trade and help from nearby economies. When it comes to archaeological evidence, much work still has yet to be done. However, artifacts and ecofacts have been found at southern African sites