Cross-cultural variation in child and adolescent time allocation to work and play in twelve hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence societies
| Autor: | Haas, Randall, Pretelli, Ilaria, Lew-Levy, Sheina, O’Brien, Matthew, Sonoda, Koji, Kissler, Stephen, Stieglitz, Jonathan, Koster, Jeremy, Lavi, Noa, Kramer, Karen, Davis, Helen, Tucker, Bram, Crittenden, Alyssa, Boyette, Adam, Ellis-Davies, Kate, Reckin, Rachel, Surovell, Todd, Hagen, Renée |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Anthropology
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| Popis: | Understanding how socioecology affects contemporary children’s learning and work opportunities can help researchers better model the selection pressures which have shaped the evolution of human life history and social organization. Here, we compiled a global time allocation dataset for children and adolescents from hunter-gatherer and mixed-subsistence societies. We investigated how society-level variables including adult sexual division of labour, ecological risk, and climate related to variation in childcare, food production, domestic work, and play. We found that adult sexual division of labour predicted increased sex differences in time allocation, especially childcare. Children in safer ecologies allocated more time to childcare and domestic work, but ecological risk did not strongly predict participation in food production. Climate did not predict child and adolescent time allocation. We argue that by coordinating labour across age and sex, children may simultaneously learn to navigate challenges in their environment while safely participating in productive activities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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