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Aspects of the developmental ecology of a foraging people
Ethological Studies of Child Behaviour • Cambridge • Published In 1972 • Pages: 285-304
By: Konner, Melvin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents the preliminary results of a study of San infant and early childhood motor and behavioral development. The topics discussed in the source include birth, conception and contraceptive techniques, infanticide, the reflexive capacity and feeding behavior of newborn infants, infant feeding and care, infant-mother interactions, growth of infant responses to strangers, and infant and early childhood play and social behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Infant feeding
- Development and maturation
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Conception
- Infant care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- San
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zhuntwasi, Angola, Botswana, and Namibia
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. J. Konner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70160102
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)