Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives Book

I	Theoretical and conceptual issues
1	Emerging issues in the study of hunter-gatherer children	3
2	Hunter-gatherer infancy and childhood : the !Kung and others	19
3	Comes the child before man : how cooperative breeding and prolonged postweaning dependence shaped human potential	65
4	Studying children in "hunter-gatherer" societies : reflections from a Nayaka perspective	92
II	Why does childhood exist?
	Introduction	105
5	What makes a competent adult forager?	109
6	Martu children's hunting strategies in the Western Desert, Australia	129
7	Growing up Mikea : children's time allocation and tuber foraging in southwestern Madagascar	147
III	Who cares for hunter-gatherer children?
	Introduction	175
8	Who tends Hadza children?	177
9	Child caretakers among Efe foragers of the Ituri Forest	191
10	Older Hadza men and women as helpers : residence data	214
11	Juvenile responses to household ecology among the Yora of Peruvian Amazonia	237
12	The growth and kinship resources of Ju/'hoansi children	262
IV	Social, emotional, cognitive, and motor development
	Introduction	285
13	Mother-infant interactions among the !Xun : analysis of gymnastic and breastfeeding behaviors	289
14	Weanling emotional patterns among the Bofi foragers of Central Africa : the role of maternal availability and sensitivity	309
15	Vulnerable lives : the experience of death and loss among the Aka and Ngandu adolescents of the Central African Republic	322
16	Play among Baka children in Cameroon	343
V	Culture change and future research
	Introduction	363
17	Infant care among the sedentarized Baka hunter-gatherers in southeastern Cameroon	365
18	Deforesting among Andamanese children : political economy and history of schooling	385
19	Reflections on hunter-gatherer childhoods	407