essay
Maternal care, infant behavior and development among the !Kung
Kalahari hunter-gatherers : studies of the !Kung San and their neighbors • Cambridge, Mass. • Published In 1976 • Pages: 218-245, 398-399
By: Konner, Melvin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
At the time of this study infancy had become a major focus of interest for psychologists, ethnologists, and students of evolutionary behavior. Draper's work on !Kung childhood focuses untimately on the effects of subsistence ecology on later childhood (see Draper, 1976, eHRAF document no. 49), while Konner's study on infant behavior and psychological development concentrates more on the physical aspects of development -- positions in sitting and standing, physical contact with the mother and other people, and neuromotor maturation and learning.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Ontogenetic data
- Infant care
- Child care
- Development and maturation
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Psychologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 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
- 1969-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- !Kangwa, Dobe, and /Du/da !Kung, Namibia and northwestern Botswana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Melvin J. Konner
- For bibliographical references see 45: Lee and DeVore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75028320
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- San (African people)