Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers write by Hideaki Terashima. This book was released on 2016-10-22. Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Technology as Human Social Tradition
Technology as Human Social Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technology as Human Social Tradition write by Peter David Jordan. This book was released on 2014-11-24. Technology as Human Social Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology—prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradition to form, and the extent to which these cultural lineages exhibit congruence with one another and with language history. Drawing on the application of cultural transmission theory to empirical research, Jordan develops a descent-with-modification perspective on the technology of Northern Hemisphere hunter-gatherers. Case studies from indigenous societies in Northwest Siberia, the Pacific Northwest Coast, and Northern California provide cross-cultural insights related to the evolution of material culture traditions at different social and spatial scales. This book promises new ways of exploring some of the primary factors that generate human cultural diversity in the deep past and through to the present.
Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers
Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers write by David F. Lancy. This book was released on 2017-12-12. Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more varied view is emerging. While the phenomenon of children as workers is ephemeral in WEIRD society and in the literature on child development, there is ample cross-cultural and historical evidence of children making vital contributions to the family economy. Children’s “labor” is of great interest to researchers, but widely treated as extra-cultural—an aberration that must be controlled. Work as a central component in children’s lives, development, and identity goes unappreciated. Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers aims to rectify that omission by surveying and synthesizing a robust corpus of material, with particular emphasis on two prominent themes: the processes involved in learning to work and the interaction between ontogeny and children’s roles as workers.
ECIE 2017 12th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
ECIE 2017 12th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ECIE 2017 12th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship write by Christophe Loué. This book was released on 2017-09-21. ECIE 2017 12th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cambridge Handbook of Play
The Cambridge Handbook of Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Handbook of Play write by Peter K. Smith. This book was released on 2018-11-15. The Cambridge Handbook of Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan. The Cambridge Handbook of Play covers the evolution of play in animals, especially mammals; the development of play from infancy through childhood and into adulthood; historical and anthropological perspectives on play; theories and methodologies; the role of play in children's learning; play in special groups such as children with impairments, or suffering political violence; and the practical applications of playwork and play therapy. Written by an international team of scholars from diverse disciplines such as psychology, education, neuroscience, sociology, evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essential reference presents the current state of the field in play research.
