Patricia Draper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Draper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Draper |
| SIGNATURE | DRAPER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 419 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Differences Between Hadza and!Kung Children's Work: Original Affluence or Practical Reason?
This chapter compares evolutionary ecology arguments with arguments from the producer: dependent ratio, and "original affluence." Incursions by non-Hadza pastoral and agricultural groups were reported by Obst and his informants. Archaeological evidence indicates the periodic presence of farmers and pastoralists over several centuries. Non-Hadza settlement has increased in recent years, being heaviest at Mangola in the Balai delta, the location of…
Patrilateral Bias among a Traditionally Egalitarian People: Ju/'hoansi Naming Practice
The Ju/'hoansi (!Kung) of Namibia and Botswana are unusual for the strong norm to name children exclusively for kin and primarily for grandparents. Naming carries important significance by linking the two namesakes and because names are a basis for extending fictive kin links. In the 1950s Lorna Marshall reported that the father has the right to name children and that he "invariably" named them for the paternal grandparents, although having the o…
Women's work, child care, and helpers-at-the-nest in a hunter-gatherer society
Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'Hoansi (!Kung)
Cultural correlates of self perceived health status among Chinese elderly
Foraging Returns of !Kung Adults and Children: Why Didn't !Kung Children Forage
Children of the hunting and gathering !Kung San seldom foraged, especially during the long dry season. In contrast, children of Hadza foragers in Tanzania often forage, in both wet and dry seasons. Because we have argued that the economic dependence of !Kung children has important consequences, we must try to understand why they did not forage. Experimental data on foraging by !Kung adults and children show that children would have had to walk fa…
Perceptions of the Adult Life Course: A Cross-cultural Analysis
A team of seven anthropologists conducted a coordinated, cross- cultural investigation to examine how structural and cultural variables shape the strategies people employ to assure themselves a secure old age. Central to the investigation was the goal of determining how people in the societies involved (Hong Kong, the United States, Ireland, and Botswana) perceive old age and its place in the adult life course, e.g. whether they view old age as a…
Cultural contexts of care: Family caregiving for elderly in America and Africa
Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization
Jay Belsky, Laurence Steinberg, Patricia Draper, Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization, Child Development, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Aug., 1991), pp. 647-670
Personality Development in Evolutionary Perspective
A relationship between personality processes and evolution can be seen when behaviors associated with sexual maturation, mating, and parenting are examined This article stipulates the types of proximal cues implicated in the shaping of personality variables that become important in the development of the individual's reproductive behavior
Coming in from the bush: Settled life by the !Kung and their accommodation to Bantu neighbors
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
The Explanation of Family Violence: The Role of Biological, Behavioral, and Cultural Selection
The nonrandom pattern of both marital violence and child maltreatment across cultures suggests that such behaviors may have been adaptive in certain past environments. Biological and psychosocial concepts and principles form the basis for a biosocial theory of family violence. In evolutionary theory, the twin concepts of parental investment and paternity certainty suggest the existence of endemic conflicts of interest within marital pairs and bet…
Technological Change and Child Behavior among the !Kung
How does change in one part of a social system affect other parts? This is the central question that must be answered in order to understand the process through which culture changes. This paper is about a small piece of the problem. It investigates how changes in subsistence economy affect child behavior and the relations between parents and children among !Kung Bushmen of Western Botswana. We will show that the adoption of a sedentary life styl…
Human sociobiology
Sociobiology provides a perspective from which much of human behavior seems to make sense, and we expect that its importance will grow in years to come. We believe, however, that its current development is flawed by several widespread misunderstandings. Like other students of nature, sociobiologists are greatly interested in adaptation, particularly as embodied in W.D. Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness. However, natural selection produces ad…
Reproductive strategies and radical solutions
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Where Are the Ju/Wasi of Nyae Nyae?: Changes in a Bushman Society, 1958-1981. John Marshall and Claire Ritchie
General/Theoretical: Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Jill Korbin
Father Absence and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective
Explanations offered by social scientists for the effects of father absence on children are reviewed; certain aspects of these interpretations are found wanting. Another explanation using theory from evolutionary biology is suggested: children show evolved, sensitive-period learning in early childhood which is linked to mother's pair-bond status or to mother's attitude toward males. As a result of children's perceptions a developmental track is e…
Essays Presented to Harry W. Basehart, the Versatility of Kinship . Linda S. Cordell , Stephen J. Beckerman
The !Kung of Nyae Nyae . Lorna J. Marshall
Sex Differences in Cognitive Styles: Socialization and Constitutional Variables
Cultural Pressure on Sex Differences
This paper suggests that sex differences in the behavior of children exist but are not necessarily intensified under certain cultural conditions. Under conditions of culture change to a sedentary economy, certain elements of male and female differentiated behavior are exploited in the process of increasing sex differentiation
Audiovisuals Reviews: Kung Bushman Film Series . Filmed and narrated by John MARSHALL
Comparative Studies of Socialization
This paper will not attempt a comprehensive review of the recent literature on socialization. Rather, it will deal with four areas of the comparative study of childhood which have particular interest to this writer: systematic ethnographic reports on child life in non-Western societies; education and anthropology; cognitive style and socialization; and socialization for sex role. As a further means of narrowing the potential range of this review,…
Father Absence and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective
Explanations offered by social scientists for the effects of father absence on children are reviewed; certain aspects of these interpretations are found wanting. Another explanation using theory from evolutionary biology is suggested: children show evolved, sensitive-period learning in early childhood which is linked to mother's pair-bond status or to mother's attitude toward males. As a result of children's perceptions a developmental track is e…
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
Foraging Returns of !Kung Adults and Children: Why Didn't !Kung Children Forage
Children of the hunting and gathering !Kung San seldom foraged, especially during the long dry season. In contrast, children of Hadza foragers in Tanzania often forage, in both wet and dry seasons. Because we have argued that the economic dependence of !Kung children has important consequences, we must try to understand why they did not forage. Experimental data on foraging by !Kung adults and children show that children would have had to walk fa…
Technological Change and Child Behavior among the !Kung
How does change in one part of a social system affect other parts? This is the central question that must be answered in order to understand the process through which culture changes. This paper is about a small piece of the problem. It investigates how changes in subsistence economy affect child behavior and the relations between parents and children among !Kung Bushmen of Western Botswana. We will show that the adoption of a sedentary life styl…
Cultural Pressure on Sex Differences
This paper suggests that sex differences in the behavior of children exist but are not necessarily intensified under certain cultural conditions. Under conditions of culture change to a sedentary economy, certain elements of male and female differentiated behavior are exploited in the process of increasing sex differentiation
Women's work, child care, and helpers-at-the-nest in a hunter-gatherer society
Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'Hoansi (!Kung)
Human sociobiology
Sociobiology provides a perspective from which much of human behavior seems to make sense, and we expect that its importance will grow in years to come. We believe, however, that its current development is flawed by several widespread misunderstandings. Like other students of nature, sociobiologists are greatly interested in adaptation, particularly as embodied in W.D. Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness. However, natural selection produces ad…
Perceptions of the Adult Life Course: A Cross-cultural Analysis
A team of seven anthropologists conducted a coordinated, cross- cultural investigation to examine how structural and cultural variables shape the strategies people employ to assure themselves a secure old age. Central to the investigation was the goal of determining how people in the societies involved (Hong Kong, the United States, Ireland, and Botswana) perceive old age and its place in the adult life course, e.g. whether they view old age as a…
Cultural contexts of care: Family caregiving for elderly in America and Africa
Comparative Studies of Socialization
This paper will not attempt a comprehensive review of the recent literature on socialization. Rather, it will deal with four areas of the comparative study of childhood which have particular interest to this writer: systematic ethnographic reports on child life in non-Western societies; education and anthropology; cognitive style and socialization; and socialization for sex role. As a further means of narrowing the potential range of this review,…
Patrilateral Bias among a Traditionally Egalitarian People: Ju/'hoansi Naming Practice
The Ju/'hoansi (!Kung) of Namibia and Botswana are unusual for the strong norm to name children exclusively for kin and primarily for grandparents. Naming carries important significance by linking the two namesakes and because names are a basis for extending fictive kin links. In the 1950s Lorna Marshall reported that the father has the right to name children and that he "invariably" named them for the paternal grandparents, although having the o…
Sex Differences in Cognitive Styles: Socialization and Constitutional Variables
Cultural correlates of self perceived health status among Chinese elderly
The Explanation of Family Violence: The Role of Biological, Behavioral, and Cultural Selection
The nonrandom pattern of both marital violence and child maltreatment across cultures suggests that such behaviors may have been adaptive in certain past environments. Biological and psychosocial concepts and principles form the basis for a biosocial theory of family violence. In evolutionary theory, the twin concepts of parental investment and paternity certainty suggest the existence of endemic conflicts of interest within marital pairs and bet…
General and Theoretical: Childrearing Psychology. FRANK Wesley
Audiovisuals Reviews: Kung Bushman Film Series . Filmed and narrated by John MARSHALL
Comparative Studies of Socialization
This paper will not attempt a comprehensive review of the recent literature on socialization. Rather, it will deal with four areas of the comparative study of childhood which have particular interest to this writer: systematic ethnographic reports on child life in non-Western societies; education and anthropology; cognitive style and socialization; and socialization for sex role. As a further means of narrowing the potential range of this review,…
Sex Differences in Cognitive Styles: Socialization and Constitutional Variables
Cultural Pressure on Sex Differences
This paper suggests that sex differences in the behavior of children exist but are not necessarily intensified under certain cultural conditions. Under conditions of culture change to a sedentary economy, certain elements of male and female differentiated behavior are exploited in the process of increasing sex differentiation
The !Kung of Nyae Nyae . Lorna J. Marshall
Essays Presented to Harry W. Basehart, the Versatility of Kinship . Linda S. Cordell , Stephen J. Beckerman
Father Absence and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective
Explanations offered by social scientists for the effects of father absence on children are reviewed; certain aspects of these interpretations are found wanting. Another explanation using theory from evolutionary biology is suggested: children show evolved, sensitive-period learning in early childhood which is linked to mother's pair-bond status or to mother's attitude toward males. As a result of children's perceptions a developmental track is e…
General/Theoretical: Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Jill Korbin
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Where Are the Ju/Wasi of Nyae Nyae?: Changes in a Bushman Society, 1958-1981. John Marshall and Claire Ritchie
Human sociobiology
Sociobiology provides a perspective from which much of human behavior seems to make sense, and we expect that its importance will grow in years to come. We believe, however, that its current development is flawed by several widespread misunderstandings. Like other students of nature, sociobiologists are greatly interested in adaptation, particularly as embodied in W.D. Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness. However, natural selection produces ad…
Reproductive strategies and radical solutions
Technological Change and Child Behavior among the !Kung
How does change in one part of a social system affect other parts? This is the central question that must be answered in order to understand the process through which culture changes. This paper is about a small piece of the problem. It investigates how changes in subsistence economy affect child behavior and the relations between parents and children among !Kung Bushmen of Western Botswana. We will show that the adoption of a sedentary life styl…
The Explanation of Family Violence: The Role of Biological, Behavioral, and Cultural Selection
The nonrandom pattern of both marital violence and child maltreatment across cultures suggests that such behaviors may have been adaptive in certain past environments. Biological and psychosocial concepts and principles form the basis for a biosocial theory of family violence. In evolutionary theory, the twin concepts of parental investment and paternity certainty suggest the existence of endemic conflicts of interest within marital pairs and bet…
Personality Development in Evolutionary Perspective
A relationship between personality processes and evolution can be seen when behaviors associated with sexual maturation, mating, and parenting are examined This article stipulates the types of proximal cues implicated in the shaping of personality variables that become important in the development of the individual's reproductive behavior
Coming in from the bush: Settled life by the !Kung and their accommodation to Bantu neighbors
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization
Jay Belsky, Laurence Steinberg, Patricia Draper, Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization, Child Development, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Aug., 1991), pp. 647-670
Perceptions of the Adult Life Course: A Cross-cultural Analysis
A team of seven anthropologists conducted a coordinated, cross- cultural investigation to examine how structural and cultural variables shape the strategies people employ to assure themselves a secure old age. Central to the investigation was the goal of determining how people in the societies involved (Hong Kong, the United States, Ireland, and Botswana) perceive old age and its place in the adult life course, e.g. whether they view old age as a…
Cultural contexts of care: Family caregiving for elderly in America and Africa
Foraging Returns of !Kung Adults and Children: Why Didn't !Kung Children Forage
Children of the hunting and gathering !Kung San seldom foraged, especially during the long dry season. In contrast, children of Hadza foragers in Tanzania often forage, in both wet and dry seasons. Because we have argued that the economic dependence of !Kung children has important consequences, we must try to understand why they did not forage. Experimental data on foraging by !Kung adults and children show that children would have had to walk fa…
Cultural correlates of self perceived health status among Chinese elderly
Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'Hoansi (!Kung)
Women's work, child care, and helpers-at-the-nest in a hunter-gatherer society
Patrilateral Bias among a Traditionally Egalitarian People: Ju/'hoansi Naming Practice
The Ju/'hoansi (!Kung) of Namibia and Botswana are unusual for the strong norm to name children exclusively for kin and primarily for grandparents. Naming carries important significance by linking the two namesakes and because names are a basis for extending fictive kin links. In the 1950s Lorna Marshall reported that the father has the right to name children and that he "invariably" named them for the paternal grandparents, although having the o…
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