Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780202307497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 484 str.

Barry S. Hewlett; Michael E. Lamb; Barry S. Hewlett

Opis

In the vast anthropological literature devoted to hunter-gatherer societies, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the place of hunter-gathererchildren. Children often represent 40 percent of hunter-gatherer populations, thus nearly half the population is omitted from most hunter-gathererethnographies and research. This volume is designed to bridge the gap in ourunderstanding of the daily lives, knowledge, and development of hunter-gatherer childre

Spis treści

I: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues; 1: Emerging Issues in the Study of Hunter-Gatherer Children; 2: Hunter-Gatherer Infancy and Childhood; 3: Comes the Child before Man; 4: Studying Children in “Hunter-Gatherer” Societies; II: Why Does Childhood Exist?; II: Introduction; 5: What Makes a Competent Adult Forager?; 6: Martu Children’s Hunting Strategies in the Western Desert, Australia; 7: Growing Up Mikea; III: Who Cares for Hunter-Gatherer Children?; III: Introduction; 8: Who Tends Hadza Children?; 9: Child Caretakers Among Ef e Foragers of the Ituri Forest; 10: Older Hadza Men and Women as Helpers; 11: Juvenile Responses to Household Ecology Among the Yora of Peruvian Amazonia; 12: The Growth and Kinship Resources of Ju/‘hoansi Children; IV: Social, Emotional, Cognitive, and Motor Development; Introduction; 13: Mother-Infant Interactions among the !Xun; 14: Weanling Emotional Patterns among the Bofi Foragers of Central Africa; 15: Vulnerable Lives; 16: Play among Baka Children in Cameroon; V: Culture Change and Future Research; V: Introduction; 17: Infant Care among the Sedentarized Baka Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Cameroon; 18: Deforesting among Andamanese Children; 19: Reflections on Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods

O autorze

Barry S. Hewlett