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Allomaternal care among the Hadza of Tanzania
Human nature • 19 (3) • Published In 2008 • Pages: 249-262
By: Crittenden, Alyssa N., Marlowe, Frank.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Through observation of the hours each day that household members and relatives spend holding small children, this study shows that the Hadza spend a great deal of time on tending to children other than their own. This result supports the "allomothering hypothesis" that such behavior is rooted in its evolutionary benefit, increasing both the mother's fertility and the survival of her children.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Family relationships
- Infant care
- Infant feeding
- Weaning and food training
- Family relationships
- Games
- Childhood activities
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender roles and issues
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Diet
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Settlement patterns
- Annual cycle
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Biological Anthropologist
- 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
- 1994-2004
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1994-2004
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Eyasi area, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alyssa N. Crittenden ; Frank W. Marlowe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78640803
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hatsa (African people)