Research Catalog

Title

Social learning and innovation in contemporary hunter-gatherers : evolutionary and ethnographic perspectives / Hideaki Terashima, Barry S. Hewlett (editors.).

Publication

• Kobe, Japan: Springer, [2016]
• ©2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Terashima, Hideaki
• Hewlett, Barry S., 1950-

Description

xviii, 318 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

This book examines social learning and innovation in hunter-gatherers from around the world, from chimpanzees and nonhuman primates to humans through most of history. The ideas and concepts based on an intensive fieldwork of gathered data is covered in 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, giving much insight into the mechanisms and meanings of learning and education in modern humans.

Series Statement

Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans series

Uniform Title

Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series.

Subjects

• Social learning
• Cognitive psychology
• Social evolution
• Archaeology
• Anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Online version also available.

Contents

Social learning and innovation in hunter-gatherers -- A cross-cultural analysis of hunter-gatherer social learning -- Teaching and overimitation in hunter-gatherers -- 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 -- Constructing social learning in interaction among the Baka hunter-gatherers -- 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 -- Variations in shape, local classification, and the establishment of a Chaine Operatore for pot making among female potters in Southwestern Ethiopia -- 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.

Call Number

JFF 17-790

ISBN

• 4431559957
• 9784431559955

OCLC

932096580

Title

Social learning and innovation in contemporary hunter-gatherers : evolutionary and ethnographic perspectives / Hideaki Terashima, Barry S. Hewlett (editors.).

Publisher

Kobe, Japan: Springer, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans series

Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats

Online version also available.

Added Author

Terashima, Hideaki, editor.

Hewlett, Barry S., 1950- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 17-790