TY - BOOK ID - 65497224 TI - The Ecology of Playful Childhood : The Diversity and Resilience of Caregiver-Child Interactions among the San of Southern Africa PY - 2020 SN - 303049439X 3030494381 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Childhood. KW - Adolescence. KW - Ethnology. KW - Linguistic anthropology. KW - Community ecology, Biotic. KW - Ethnology—Africa. KW - Community psychology. KW - Environmental psychology. KW - Childhood, Adolescence and Society. KW - Cultural Anthropology. KW - Linguistic Anthropology. KW - Community & Population Ecology. KW - African Culture. KW - Community and Environmental Psychology. KW - Cognitive ergonomics KW - Ecological psychology KW - Ecopsychology KW - Ecotherapy KW - Environmental quality KW - Environmental social sciences KW - Human factors science KW - Psychoeology KW - Psychology KW - Psychotherapy KW - Ecological Systems Theory KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Social psychology KW - Biocenoses KW - Biocoenoses KW - Biogeoecology KW - Biological communities KW - Biomes KW - Biotic community ecology KW - Communities, Biotic KW - Community ecology, Biotic KW - Ecological communities KW - Ecosystems KW - Natural communities KW - Ecology KW - Population biology KW - Anthropo-linguistics KW - Ethnolinguistics KW - Language and ethnicity KW - Linguistic anthropology KW - Linguistics and anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Teen-age KW - Teenagers KW - Puberty KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Psychological aspects KW - Development KW - Sociology. KW - Social groups. KW - Anthropological linguistics. KW - Biotic communities. KW - Population biology. KW - Culture. KW - Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. KW - Sociocultural Anthropology. KW - Community and Population Ecology. KW - Community Psychology. KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Biology KW - Association KW - Group dynamics KW - Groups, Social KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Social participation KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65497224 AB - While studies of San children have attained the peculiar status of having delineated the prototype for hunter-gatherer childhood, relatively few serious ethnographic studies of San children have been conducted since an initial flurry of research in the 1960s and 1970s. Based on the author’s long-term field research among several San groups of Southern Africa, this book reconsiders hunter-gatherer childhood using “play” as a key concept. Playfulness pervades the intricate practices of caregiver-child interactions among the San: immediately after birth, mothers have extremely close contact with their babies. In addition to the mother’s attentions, other people around the babies actively facilitate gymnastic behavior to soothe them. These distinctive caregiving behaviors indicate a loving, indulgent attitude towards infants. This also holds true for several language genres of the San that are used in early vocal communication. Children gradually become involved in various playful activities in groups of children of multiple ages, which is the major locus of their attachment after weaning; these playful activities show important similarities to the household and subsistence activities carried out by adults. Rejuvenating studies of San children and hunter-gatherer childhood and childrearing practices, this book aims to examine these issues in detail, ultimately providing a new perspective for the understanding of human sociality. ER -