Radical AnthropologyKey paper on #knowledge transmission among #BaYaka hunter-gatherers by the excellent anthropologist Haneul Jang and colleague.
#anthropology #culturalevolution
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/9/pgaf258/8249057?login=false
Film on #BaYaka #huntergatherer #children, from Gul Deniz #Salali
Rising in the Forest: A Documentary on Hunter-Gatherer Childhood
Lovely new paper on the sheer physical #activity of #BaYaka #children. They are so much more active than kids living Western lifestyle, especially once those children begin formal schooling. From Deniz #Salali
Patterns of physical activity in hunter-gatherer children compared with US and UK children - Scientific Reports
Contemporary hunter-gatherers are highly active, but little is known about physical activity levels in hunter-gatherer children. We analysed 150 days of accelerometer data from 51 BaYaka hunter-gatherer children (aged 3–18) in the Republic of Congo, comparing it with British and American children using samples from Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). BaYaka children were highly active, engaging in over 3 h of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) daily, surpassing British adolescents by over 70 min. Unlike US children, whose activity diminished with age, BaYaka children’s activity levels increased, irrespective of gender. This trend suggests that formal education may suppress activity among American children, a pattern not seen in the BaYaka community. Reflecting their foraging lifestyle, activity patterns varied within and between days in BaYaka children, a contrast to the more uniform daily activity observed in American children. Furthermore, our data challenges the concept of ‘teenage chronotypes’ prevalent in post-industrial societies, with adolescent BaYaka maintaining shorter sleep phases and later bedtimes, synchronized with sunrise. These findings highlight the impact of a foraging upbringing on children’s activity levels, providing a benchmark for understanding childhood physical activity and wellbeing.
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TONIGHT!!
Tuesday, day before Dark Moon 🌑
Jan 28, 18:30 (London UTC)
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
Hunting played a key role in human evolution, including in the development of human life history. As a complex skill, hunting likely involved a long learning period to develop competencies. Archaeological evidence of learning this skill includes hunting gear, butchered prey, and art, yet many of these data would be lost to time because the elements are either organic and don’t preserve, or are intangible. Ethnographic data can help us to fill in these gaps including how children and adolescents might have developed embodied skills which would have allowed them and their communities to survive and thrive.
In this talk leading archaeologist Annemieke Milks gives an overview of some relevant archaeological and ethnographic records of the hunting activities of forager children and adolescents, and explores commonalities and divergences. While the ethnographic data are significant, particularly in understanding the importance of play, practice, teaching and language, the archaeological record has its own unique stories to tell, which may not have perfect analogies amongst recent foragers.
Annemieke will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.
#BaYaka #huntingskills #experimentalarchaeology #ethnography #children #archaeology #anthropology
Day 12: in this brilliant talk Dasa Bombjakova describes #moadjo, the #BaYaka theatre of #ridicule run by older #women if some man misbehaves!
'this lecture portrays the role of ridicule and other powerful levelling mechanisms in learning about the normative world of this gender-egalitarian BaYaka hunting and gathering society. How do you teach norms to children in this specific cultural context? What this has to do with the Colin Turnbull’s concept of noise? Dasa Bombjakova will address these questions and raise some tips on future research on norms in an egalitarian hunter-gatherer context.'
#13daysofXmas #RAGtoptalks
#egalitarianism #gender #laughter #IndigenousCosmology #levelling
Ridicule, Public Speaking and Noise: On the BaYaka normative world by Dasa Bombjakova by Dasa Bombjakova May 24, 2022
The aim of this lecture is to portray the role of ridicule and other powerful levelling mechanisms in learning about the normative world in this gender-egalitarian…
Here is Emeka, doing a proper job of sharing meat of a black-fronted duiker, making sure his hunting stays good!
This is real #Inequityaversion
Photo: Jerome Lewis
#BaYaka #ekila #shareproperly #Congo #huntergatherers #egalitarian #egalitarianism
Blog (see English translation in 🧵 below 👇) on #DasaBombjakova's work with the #BaYaka on #moadjo and #mosambo -- techniques of ridicule and oratory in a truly egalitarian society.
#huntergatherers #egalitarianism #womenscollective
https://unaantropologaenlaluna.blogspot.com/2024/03/bayaka-para-mantener-el-bosque-abierto.html?m=1
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Tuesday Feb 6, 6:30pm London time
we have #DenizSalali on
'Raising Tomorrow: BaYaka Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods and Global Perspectives on Child Development'
FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org
Deniz is speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.
NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.
#BaYaka #huntergatherers #childdevelopment #childcare #anthropology #Congo #ForestPeople #sociallearning
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Tuesday Jan 30, 6:30pm London time
we have #JeromeLewis on
'Women's biggest husband is the Moon': gender relations among BaYaka hunter-gatherers
FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org
Jerome is speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.
NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.
#BaYaka #huntergatherers #gender #egalitarianism #anthropology #Congo #ForestPeople
Another great paper: on multiple #caregiving networks among the #BaYaka, following 18 small children to map out their full network of caregivers.
'we constructed caregiving networks across the domains of responding to crying, physical contact, interactive care, and proximity. Crying was virtually always responded to rapidly via comforting and never via scolding. Children received physical contact and care for the majority of the day. Allomothering accounted for 40%–50% of caregiving in each domain. While allomaternal networks were large, they were highly concentrated—the majority of a child’s allocare was provided by just a few caregivers.'
One author, Deniz Salali, comments: "There are on average 3.3 people other than mothers who respond to a crying infant in the BaYaka. I wish I had that!"
#huntergatherers #Africa #childcare https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-21265-001.html