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Hadza children's foraging: juvenile dependency, social arrangements, and mobility among hunter-gatherers
Current anthropology • 36 (4) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 687-700
By: Hawkes, Kristen, O'Connell, James F., Blurton Jones, N. G. (Nicholas G.).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study looks at the strategies Hadza children use to get food. Triangulating data from personal observation and empirical records of children's foraging behavior, it is argued that Hadza children are not as dependent on parents as conventionally assumed. Instead, each child is an active forager, acquiring substantial amounts of food they not only directly consume but also bring back to camp. The analysis calls for rethinking long-held assumptions about juvenile dependency in human evolution.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- Nutrition
- Annual cycle
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Family relationships
- Labor and leisure
- Division of labor by gender
- Residence
- Childhood activities
- Production and supply
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hadza
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Biological Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Sept.-Nov. 1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern Lake Eyasi area, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- K. Hawkes, J.F. O'Connell, and N.G. Blurton Jones
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 699-700)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 63000576
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hatsa (African people)