Subsistence ecology and play among the Okavango Delta peoples of Botswana

Human Nature

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-81

  Bock, John ^a   Johnson, Sara E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Botswana; Children's play; Human evolutionary ecology; Life history theory; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442662837     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-004-1004-x     Document Type: Article

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