Children's daily activities and knowledge acquisition: A case study among the Baka from southeastern Cameroon

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gallois, Sandrine ^a,b   Duda, Romain ^a   Hewlett, Barry ^c   Reyes García, Victoria ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Embodied knowledge; Ethnoecology; Hunter Gatherers; Learning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; ECOSYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; CAMEROON; CHILD; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84951799253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13002-015-0072-9     Document Type: Article

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