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.
Akira Takada is currently an associate professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) at Kyoto University, Japan.
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Part I.- Chapter 1: Children in the Wild.- Chapter 2: The Last Hunter-Gatherers of the Kalahari.- Chapter 3: Minding Hunter-Gatherer Childhood.- Part II.- Chapter 4: Children and Play.- Chapter 5: Pleasure in Nursing.- Chapter 6: Playful Gymnastics.- Chapter 7: The Joy of Early Vocal Communication.- Chapter 8: Imitation in Playful Activities.- Chapter 9: Socialization through Singing and Dancing Activities.- Chapter 10: Learning to Work .- Chapter 11: Reconsidering Human Childhood.