Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers (eBook)
XVIII, 318 Seiten
Springer Japan (Verlag)
978-4-431-55997-9 (ISBN)
This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter-gatherers from around the world. More is known about social learning in chimpanzees and nonhuman primates than is known about social learning in hunter-gatherers, a way of life that characterized most of human history. The book describes diverse patterns of learning and teaching behaviors in contemporary hunter-gatherers from the perspectives of cultural anthropology, ecological anthropology, biological anthropology, and developmental psychology. The book addresses several theoretical issues including the learning hypothesis which suggests that the fate of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the last glacial period might have been due to the differences in learning ability. It has been unequivocally claimed that social learning is intrinsically important for human beings; however, the characteristics of human learning remain under a dense fog despite innumerable studies with children from urban-industrial cultures. Controversy continues on problems such as: do hunter-gatherers teach? If so, what types of teaching occur, who does it, how often, under what contexts, and so on. The book explores the most basic and intrinsic aspects of social learning as well as the foundation of innovative activities in everyday activities of contemporary hunter-gatherer people across the earth. The book examines how hunter-gatherer core values, such as gender and age egalitarianism and extensive sharing of food and childcare are transmitted and acquired by children. Chapters are grouped into five sections: 1) theoretical perspectives of learning in hunter-gatherers, 2) modes and processes of social learning in hunter-gatherers, 3) innovation and cumulative culture, 4) play and other cultural contexts of social learning and innovation, 5) biological contexts of learning and innovation. Ideas and concepts based on the data gathered through an intensive fieldwork by the authors will give much insight into the mechanisms and meanings of learning and education in modern humans.
This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter-gatherers from around the world. More is known about social learning in chimpanzees and nonhuman primates than is known about social learning in hunter-gatherers, a way of life that characterized most of human history. The book describes diverse patterns of learning and teaching behaviors in contemporary hunter-gatherers from the perspectives of cultural anthropology, ecological anthropology, biological anthropology, and developmental psychology. The book addresses several theoretical issues including the learning hypothesis which suggests that the fate of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the last glacial period might have been due to the differences in learning ability. It has been unequivocally claimed that social learning is intrinsically important for human beings; however, the characteristics of human learning remain under a dense fog despite innumerable studies with children from urban-industrial cultures. Controversy continues on problems such as: do hunter-gatherers teach? If so, what types of teaching occur, who does it, how often, under what contexts, and so on. The book explores the most basic and intrinsic aspects of social learning as well as the foundation of innovative activities in everyday activities of contemporary hunter-gatherer people across the earth. The book examines how hunter-gatherer core values, such as gender and age egalitarianism and extensive sharing of food and childcare are transmitted and acquired by children. Chapters are grouped into five sections: 1) theoretical perspectives of learning in hunter-gatherers, 2) modes and processes of social learning in hunter-gatherers, 3) innovation and cumulative culture, 4) play and other cultural contexts of social learning and innovation, 5) biological contexts of learning and innovation. Ideas and concepts based on the data gathered through an intensive fieldwork by the authors will give much insight into the mechanisms and meanings of learning and education in modern humans.
Chapter 1. Social Learning and Innovation in Hunter-GatherersPart I Evolutionary Approaches to Social Learning: Modes and Processes of Social LearningChapter 2. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Social LearningChapter 3. Teaching and Overimiation in Hunter-GatherersChapter 4. A Multi-Stage Learning Model for Cultural Transmission: Evidence from Three Indigenous SocietiesChapter 5. To Share or Not to Share? Social Processes of Learning to Share Food among Hadza Hunter-Gatherer ChildrenChapter 6. Learning to Spear Hunt among Ethiopian Chabu Adolescent Hunter-GatherersChapter 7. Transmission of Body Decoration among the Baka Hunter-GatherersPart II Situated Learning and Participatory Approaches to Social LearningChapter 8. Education and Learning During Social Situations among Central Kalahari SanChapter 9. Constructing Social Learning in Interaction among the Baka Hunter-GatherersChapter 10. Social and Epistemological Dimensions of Learning among Nayaka Hunter-GatherersChapter 11. High Motivation and Low Gain: Food Procurement from Rainforest Foraging by Baka Hunter-Gatherer ChildrenPart III Play and Social Learning and InnovationChapter 12. Play, Music, and Taboo in Reproduction of an Egalitarian SocietyChapter 13. Children’s Play and the Integration of Social and Individual Learning: A Cultural Niche Construction PerspectiveChapter 14. Evening Play: Acquainting Toddlers with Dangers and Fear and Yuendumu, Northern TerritoryChapter 15. Hunting Play among San Children: Imitation, Learning, and PlayChapter 16. When Hunters Gather But Do not Hunt; Playing with the State in the Forest: Jarawa Children’s changing WorldPart IV Innovation and Cumulative CultureChapter 17. Innovation and Social Learning among Chabu Adolescent Hunter-Gatherers of EthiopiaChapter 18. Variations in Shape, Local Classification, and the Establishment of a Chaine Operatore for Pot Making among Female Potters in Southwestern EthiopiaChapter 19. Innovation of Paintings and its Transmission: Case Studies from Aboriginal Art in AustraliaPart V Cognitive and Social Development Approaches and Social LearningChapter 20. Early Social Cognitive Development in Baka Infants: Joint Attention, Behavior Control, Understanding of the Self Related to Others, Social Approaching, and Language LearningChapter 21. Learning in Collaborative Action Through the Art Works of Baka Hunter-Gatherer ChildrenPart VI Social Learning and Other Approaches to Understanding the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern HumansChapter 22. Hunter-Gatherers and Learning NatureChapter 23. Socio-Cultural Cultural of Positive Attitudes Towards Learning: Considering Differences in Learning Ability between Neanderthals and Modern Humans from Examining Inuit Children’s Learning ProcessChapter 24. Body Growth and Life History of Modern Humans and Neanderthals from the Perspective of Human EvolutionChapter 25. Evolutionary Location of the Neanderthal between Chimpanzees and Modern Humans: A Working Memory, Theory of Mind and Brain Developmental, Piagetian PerspectiveChapter 26. Reflections on Hunter-Gatherer Social Learning and Innovation
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.10.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series |
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 318 p. 79 illus., 57 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Tokyo |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | Child Development • Contemporary Hunter-gatherers • Cultural Transmission • Innovation of Humans • Learning Strategy • Neanderthal to Human • Residential and Logistical Mobility • Skill Transfer Early Humans • social learning • Social Learning Early Humans • Social Learning Neanderthals |
| ISBN-10 | 4-431-55997-3 / 4431559973 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-4-431-55997-9 / 9784431559979 |
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