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Aspects of the developmental ecology of a foraging peopleessay 1972 • Konner, Melvin
San • Africa > Southern Africa
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...Maternal care, infant behavior and development among the !Kungessay 1976 • Konner, Melvin
San • Africa > Southern Africa
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 childhoo...Timing and management of birth among the !Kungarticle 1987 • Konner, Melvin & Shostak, Marjorie
San • Africa > Southern Africa
In this paper, Konner and Shostak examine the influence of cultural traditions on birth spacing and birth management among the !Kung. Although the !Kung do not use contraception or abstain from sex, they have low natural fertility. Late menarche and ...!Kung knowledge of animal behavioressay 1976 • Blurton Jones, N. G. (Nicholas G.) & Konner, Melvin
San • Africa > Southern Africa
The investigation reported in this study concerns !Kuna knowledge of animal behavior (ethnoethology) and their methods of acquiring and organizing this knowledge (p. 326). This information was elicited from !Kung informants in a series of discussion ...