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Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin

Author : Barry S. Hewlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351514113
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin written by Barry S. Hewlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forest foragers of the Congo Basin, known collectively as "Pygmies," are the largest and most diverse group of active hunter-gatherers remaining in the world. At least fifteen different ethno-linguistic groups exist in the Congo Basin with a total population of 250,000 to 350,000 individuals. Extensive knowledge about these groups has accumulated in the last forty years, but readers have been forced to piece together what is known from many sources. French, Japanese, American, and British researchers have conducted the majority of the research; each national research group has its own academic traditions, history, and publications. Here, leading academic authorities from diverse national traditions summarize recent research on forest hunter-gatherers. The volume explores the diversity and uniformity of Congo Basin hunter-gatherer life by providing detailed but accessible overviews of recent research. It represents the first book in over twenty-five years to provide a comprehensive and holistic overview of African forest hunter-gatherers. Chapters discuss the cultural variation in characteristic features of Congo Basin hunter-gatherer life, such as their yodeled polyphonic music, pronounced egalitarianism, multiple-child caregiving, and complex relations with neighboring farming groups. Other contributors address theoretical issues, such as why Pygmies are short, how tropical forest hunter-gatherers live without the carbohydrates they receive from neighboring farmers, and how hunter-gatherer children learn to share so extensively.

The Forest People: Africa's Pygmy Tribes Along the Congo River - Their Hunter-Gatherer Culture, Village Customs and Bond with Nature

Author : Colin M. Turnbull
Publisher : Pantianos Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781789872064
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Forest People: Africa's Pygmy Tribes Along the Congo River - Their Hunter-Gatherer Culture, Village Customs and Bond with Nature written by Colin M. Turnbull and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, anthropologist Colin Turnbull lived among the pygmies of the Congo river for three years - this is his account of life among the tribespeople. Adventurous as a young man, at the time he moved to the Congo Turnbull already had several years' experience of Africa and its rural cultures. Seeking to shed insight on the pygmy peoples for a wider audience, he sought a home in one of the villages and introduced himself to the locals. Quickly becoming popular in the locality for his courtesy and respectful manners, Turnbull kept a diary and took photographs of the locals, noting their customs and dynamics as a tribal community. The interplay between males and females of the tribe are detailed, with rivalries and conflicts between the younger pygmies. Marriage and the duties therein define the tribe, with complex customs existing between existing and prospective couples. As the tribes live as hunter gatherers, it is necessary for a number of men to be skilled in gathering meat, fruits and vegetables, together with honeycomb - a substance prized by the pygmies for its deliciousness. Turnbull does not bog down his narrative in academic jargon or complex nuance; rather we find an informal, at times even casual, account of life in a forest tribe. We receive a sense of the personalities and priorities accorded; this readability undoubtedly helps us better comprehend the pygmies' lives.

Hunters and Gatherers in Central Africa

Author : John Beauclerk
Publisher : Oxfam Pub
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunters and Gatherers in Central Africa written by John Beauclerk and published by Oxfam Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the traditional economy of indigenous forest communities in the Zaire Basin, and the pressure put on it by commercial interests, competing cultivators, and national governments.

Anarchic Solidarity

Author : Thomas Gibson
Publisher : Far Eastern Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780938692942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Anarchic Solidarity written by Thomas Gibson and published by Far Eastern Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume analyzes a group of Southeast Asian societies that have in common a mode of sociality that maximizes personal autonomy, political egalitarianism, and inclusive forms of social solidarity. Their members make their livings as nomadic hunter-gatherers, shifting cultivators, sea nomads, and peasants embedded in market economies. While political anarchy and radical equality appear in many societies as utopian ideals, these societies provide examples of actually existing, viable forms of "anarchy." This book documents the mechanisms that enable these societies to maintain their life-ways and suggests some moral and political lessons that those who appreciate them might apply to their own societies"--Back cover.

The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers

Author : Robert L. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024870
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers written by Robert L. Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity.

Hunter-gatherers in a Changing World

Author : Victoria Reyes-García
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319422715
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Hunter-gatherers in a Changing World written by Victoria Reyes-García and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers’ livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from historical legacy to environmental change, and from changes in national economic, political and legal systems to more broad-scale and universal notions of globalization and acculturation. Far from the commonly held romantic view that hunter-gatherers continue to exist as isolated populations living a traditional lifestyle in harmony with the environment, contemporary hunter-gatherers – like many rural communities around the world - face a number of relatively new ecological and social challenges to which they are pressed to adapt. Contemporary hunter-gatherer societies are increasingly and rapidly being affected by Global Changes, related both to biophysical Earth systems (i.e., changes in climate, biodiversity and natural resources, and water availability), and to social systems (i.e. demographic transitions, sedentarisation, integration into the market economy, and all the socio-cultural change that these and other factors trigger). Chapter 10 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Demography and Evolutionary Ecology of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers

Author : Nicholas Blurton Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316425215
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Demography and Evolutionary Ecology of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers by : Nicholas Blurton Jones

Download or read book Demography and Evolutionary Ecology of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers written by Nicholas Blurton Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hadza, an ethnic group indigenous to northern Tanzania, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer populations. Archaeology shows 130,000 years of hunting and gathering in their land but Hadza are rapidly losing areas vital to their way of life. This book offers a unique opportunity to capture a disappearing lifestyle. Blurton Jones interweaves data from ecology, demography and evolutionary ecology to present a comprehensive analysis of the Hadza foragers. Discussion centres on expansion of the adaptationist perspective beyond topics customarily studied in human behavioural ecology, to interpret a wider range of anthropological concepts. Analysing behavioural aspects, with a specific focus on relationships and their wider impact on the population, this book reports the demographic consequences of different patterns of marriage and the availability of helpers such as husbands, children, and grandmothers. Essential for researchers and graduate students alike, this book will challenge preconceptions of human sociobiology.

Hunter-gatherer Childhoods

Author : Barry S. Hewlett
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202366669
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hunter-gatherer Childhoods written by Barry S. Hewlett and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vast anthropological literature devoted to hunter-gatherer societies, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the place of hunter-gatherer children. Children often represent 40 percent of hunter-gatherer populations, thus nearly half the population is omitted from most hunter-gatherer ethnographies and research. This volume is designed to bridge the gap in our understanding of the daily lives, knowledge, and development of hunter-gatherer children. The twenty-six contributors to Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods use three general but complementary theoretical approaches--evolutionary, developmental, cultural--in their presentations of new and insightful ethnographic data. For instance, the authors employ these theoretical orientations to provide the first systematic studies of hunter-gatherer children's hunting, play, infant care by children, weaning and expressions of grief. The chapters focus on understanding the daily life experiences of children, and their views and feelings about their lives and cultural change. Chapters address some of the following questions: why does childhood exist, who cares for hunter-gatherer children, what are the characteristic features of hunter-gatherer children's development and what are the impacts of culture change on hunter-gatherer child care? The book is divided into five parts. The first section provides historical, theoretical and conceptual framework for the volume; the second section examines data to test competing hypotheses regarding why childhood is particularly long in humans; the third section expands on the second section by looking at who cares for hunter-gatherer children; the fourth section explores several developmental issues such as weaning, play and loss of loved ones; and, the final section examines the impact of sedentism and schools on hunter-gatherer children. This pioneering volume will help to stimulate further research and scholarship on hunter-gatherer childhoods, thereby advancing our understanding of the way of life that characterized most of human history and of the processes that may have shaped both human development and human evolution. Barry S. Hewlett is professor of anthropology at Washington State University, Vancouver. Michael E. Lamb is professor of psychology in the social sciences, Cambridge University.

Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000190269
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology written by Alan Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of hunter-gatherers has had a profound impact on thinking about human nature and about the nature of society. The subject has especially influenced ideas on social evolution and on the development of human culture. Anthropologists and archaeologists continue to investigate living hunter-gatherers and the remains of past hunter-gatherer societies in the hope of unearthing the secrets of our ancestors and learning something of the natural existence of humankind. Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in hunter-gatherer research? What is the most up-to-date thinking on the subject and how does it reflect current trends within the social sciences? This book provides a much-needed overview of the history of thought on one of science's most intriguing subjects. It will serve as a landmark text for anthropologists, archaeologists and students researching anthropological theory or the history of social anthropology and related disciplines.

Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers

Author : Hideaki Terashima
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431559973
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers written by Hideaki Terashima and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter–gatherers from around the world. More is known about social learning in chimpanzees and nonhuman primates than is known about social learning in hunter–gatherers, a way of life that characterized most of human history. The book describes diverse patterns of learning and teaching behaviors in contemporary hunter–gatherers from the perspectives of cultural anthropology, ecological anthropology, biological anthropology, and developmental psychology. The book addresses several theoretical issues including the learning hypothesis which suggests that the fate of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the last glacial period might have been due to the differences in learning ability. It has been unequivocally claimed that social learning is intrinsically important for human beings; however, the characteristics of human learning remain under a dense fog despite innumerable studies with children from urban–industrial cultures. Controversy continues on problems such as: do hunter–gatherers teach? If so, what types of teaching occur, who does it, how often, under what contexts, and so on. The book explores the most basic and intrinsic aspects of social learning as well as the foundation of innovative activities in everyday activities of contemporary hunter–gatherer people across the earth. The book examines how hunter-gatherer core values, such as gender and age egalitarianism and extensive sharing of food and childcare are transmitted and acquired by children. Chapters are grouped into five sections: 1) theoretical perspectives of learning in hunter–gatherers, 2) modes and processes of social learning in hunter–gatherers, 3) innovation and cumulative culture, 4) play and other cultural contexts of social learning and innovation, 5) biological contexts of learning and innovation. Ideas and concepts based on the data gathered through an intensive fieldwork by the authors will give much insight into the mechanisms and meanings of learning and education in modern humans.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-gatherers

Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199551227
Total Pages : 1361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-gatherers written by Vicki Cummings and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. This book provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities.

Intimate Fathers

Author : Barry S. Hewlett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472082032
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Fathers written by Barry S. Hewlett and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993-01-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systematic study of non-Western fathers' roles in infant care focuses on the Aka pygmies of central Africa

African Study Monographs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African Study Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Other Children Learn

Author : Cornelius N. Grove
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475862903
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book How Other Children Learn written by Cornelius N. Grove and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To gain comparative insights into middle-class Americans’ child-related values and practices, Grove’s How Other Children Learn examines children’s learning and parents’ parenting in five traditional societies. Such societies are those have not been affected by “modern” – urban, industrial – values and ways of life. They are found in small villages and camps where people engage daily with their natural surroundings and have little or no experience of formal classroom instruction. The five societies are the Aka hunter-gatherers of Africa, the Quechua of highland Peru, the Navajo of the U.S. Southwest, the village Arabs of the Levant, and the Hindu villagers of India. Each society has its own chapter, which overviews that society’s background and context, then probes adults’ mindsets and strategies regarding children’s learning and socialization for adulthood. The book concludes with two summary chapters that draw broadly on anthropologists’ findings about many traditional societies and offer examples from the five societies discussed earlier. The first reveals why children in traditional societies willingly carry out family responsibilities and suggests how American parents can attain similar outcomes. The second contrasts our middle-class patterns of child-rearing with traditional societies’ ways of enabling children to learn and grow into contributing family and community members.

The Evolution of Techniques

Author : Mathieu Charbonneau
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262378388
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Techniques written by Mathieu Charbonneau and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of technical traditions. Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques, edited by Mathieu Charbonneau, addresses the impacts of both flexibility and rigidity on how techniques are used, transformed, and reconstructed, at varying social and temporal scales. The multidisciplinary contributors demonstrate the important role of the varied learning contexts and social configurations involved in the transmission, use, and evolution of techniques. They explore the diversity of cognitive, behavioral, sociocultural, and ecological mechanisms that promote and constrain technical flexibility and rigidity, proposing a deeper picture of the enablers of, and obstacles to, technical transmission and change. In line with the extended evolutionary synthesis, the book proposes a more inclusive and materially grounded conception of technical evolution in terms of promiscuous, dynamic, and multidirectional causal processes. Offering new evidence and novel theoretical perspectives, the contributors deploy a diversity of methods, including ethnographies, field and laboratory experiments, cladistics and phylogenetic tree building, historiography, and philosophical analysis. Examples of the wide range of topics covered include field experiments with potters from five cultures, stability and change in Paleolithic toolmaking, why children lack flexibility when making tools, and cultural techniques in nonhuman animals. The volume’s three thematic sections are: · Timescales of technical rigidity and flexibility · Rigid copying to flexible reconstruction · Exogenous factors of technical rigidity and flexibility The volume closes with a discussion by philosopher Kim Sterelny. Contributors Rita Astuti, Adam Howell Boyette, Blandine Bril, Josep Call, Mathieu Charbonneau, Arianna Curioni, Nicola Cutting, Bert De Munck, György Gergely, Anne-Lise Goujon, Ildikó Király, Catherine Lara, Sébastien Manem, Luke McEllin, Helena Miton, Giulio Ongaro, Sarah Pope-Caldwell, Valentine Roux, Manon Schweinfurth, Dan Sperber, Kim Sterelny, Dietrich Stout, James W. A. Strachan, Sadie Tenpas

Cognition, foraging, and energetics in extant and extinct primates

Author : Cécile Garcia
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832522513
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, foraging, and energetics in extant and extinct primates written by Cécile Garcia and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hunter Gatherer

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Hunter Gatherer written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Hunter Gatherer A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human being who lives an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which the majority or all of their food is obtained through the process of foraging. This means that they gather food from local naturally occurring sources, particularly edible wild plants, but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything else that is safe to eat, and/or by hunting game. Almost all omnivores engage in this behavior on a regular basis. There is a contrast between the more sedentary agricultural cultures and the hunter-gatherer communities. The agricultural societies are primarily dependent on the cultivation of crops and the breeding of domesticated animals for the production of food. However, the boundaries between the two modes of living are not entirely different on their own. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Hunter-gatherer Chapter 2: Mesolithic Chapter 3: Neolithic Chapter 4: Paleolithic Chapter 5: Prehistoric warfare Chapter 6: Middle Paleolithic Chapter 7: Paleo-Indians Chapter 8: Sedentism Chapter 9: Original affluent society Chapter 10: Prehistoric Korea Chapter 11: Prehistory Chapter 12: Sexual division of labour Chapter 13: Neolithic British Isles Chapter 14: Prehistoric technology Chapter 15: Primitive communism Chapter 16: Information economy Chapter 17: Christopher Boehm Chapter 18: Manuel Castells Chapter 19: Nurit Bird-David Chapter 20: Anna Belfer-Cohen Chapter 21: Prehistoric religion (II) Answering the public top questions about hunter gatherer. (III) Real world examples for the usage of hunter gatherer in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of hunter gatherer.