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Technological change and child behavior among the !Kung
Ethnology • 27 • Published In 1988 • Pages: 339-365
By: Draper, Patricia, Cashdan, Elizabeth A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The source examines how changes in subsistence economy has affected child behavior and relations between parents and children among the !Kung San of Western Botswana. The authors' investigation is based on comparative observations of child play and behavior and child-adult interactions in two groups of !Kung San, one a sedentary group living in several villages in the !Kangwa Valley and practicing a mixed economy of gardening, stock raising, and gathering and the other a nomadic hunting and gathering group occupying the area in the vicinity of the Namibia-Botswana border. The authors show that the adoption of sedentary life and the attending changes in economic activities are associated with changes in the social interaction between parents and children and between children and their peers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Cultural participation
- Child care
- Childhood activities
- Status of children
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1968-1969
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1969
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- !Kwanga and Duda areas, Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Patricia Draper and Elizabeth Cashdan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-365)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)