Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers : Evolutionary and Ethnographic Perspectives / edited by Hideaki Terashima, Barry S. Hewlett.
Terashima, Hideaki, author.; Terashima, Hideaki, editor.; Hewlett, Barry S., 1950- editor.; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
2016
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Title
Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers : Evolutionary and Ethnographic Perspectives / edited by Hideaki Terashima, Barry S. Hewlett.
Author
Terashima, Hideaki, author.
ISBN
4431559957
9784431559955
4431559973
9784431559979
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55997-9
Published
Tokyo Springer Japan Imprint : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XVIII, 318 pages 79 illustrations, 57 illustrations in color.)
Item Number
10.1007/978-4-431-55997-9 doi
Call Number
HM545
Dewey Decimal Classification
301
Summary
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.
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Terashima, Hideaki, editor.
Hewlett, Barry S., 1950- editor.
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École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
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Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series.
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Social learning and innovation in contemporary hunter-gatherers : evolutionary and ethnographic perspectives.
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A Multi-Stage Learning Model for Cultural Transmission: Evidence from Three Indigenous Societies
To Share or Not to Share? Social Processes of Learning to Share Food among Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Children
Learning to Spear Hunt among Ethiopian Chabu Adolescent Hunter-Gatherers
Transmission of Body Decoration among the Baka Hunter-Gatherers
Education and Learning During Social Situations among Central Kalahari San
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Social and Epistemological Dimensions of Learning among Nayaka Hunter-Gatherers
High Motivation and Low Gain: Food Procurement from Rainforest Foraging by Baka Hunter-Gatherer Children
Play, Music, and Taboo in Reproduction of an Egalitarian Society
Children's Play and the Integration of Social and Individual Learning: A Cultural Niche Construction Perspective
Evening Play: Acquainting Toddlers with Dangers and Fear and Yuendumu, Northern Territory
Hunting Play among San Children: Imitation, Learning, and Play
When Hunters Gather But Do not Hunt; Playing with the State in the Forest: Jarawa Children's changing World
Innovation and Social Learning among Chabu Adolescent Hunter-Gatherers of Ethiopia
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Innovation of Paintings and its Transmission: Case Studies from Aboriginal Art in Australia
Early Social Cognitive Development in Baka Infants: Joint Attention, Behavior Control, Understanding of the Self Related to Others, Social Approaching, and Language Learning
Learning in Collaborative Action Through the Art Works of Baka Hunter-Gatherer Children
Hunter-Gatherers and Learning Nature
Socio-Cultural Cultural of Positive Attitudes Towards Learning: Considering Differences in Learning Ability between Neanderthals and Modern Humans from Examining Inuit Children's Learning Process
Body Growth and Life History of Modern Humans and Neanderthals from the Perspective of Human Evolution
Evolutionary Location of the Neanderthal between Chimpanzees and Modern Humans: A Working Memory, Theory of Mind and Brain Developmental, Piagetian Perspective
Reflections on Hunter-Gatherer Social Learning and Innovation.

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