Noa Lavi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3646749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noa Lavi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavi |
| SIGNATURE | LAVI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2511-8940 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hunter-Gatherer Children at School
Universal formal education is a major global development goal. Yet hunter-gatherer communities have extremely low participation rates in formal schooling, even in comparison with other marginalized groups. Here, we review the existing literature to identify common challenges faced by hunter-gatherer children in formal education systems in the Global South. We find that hunter-gatherer children are often granted extensive personal autonomy, which …
Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge
Research note
We recently conducted a review of the literature regarding hunter-gatherer children’s schooling experiences in the global South (Ninkova et al 2024). In this research note, we highlight one central finding of our review: that the autonomy granted to hunter-gatherer children determines their participation in school. Children decide for themselves whether they will attend. Children also decide for themselves whether they will pursue alternative end…
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer
We examine how hunter-gatherers are imagined in popular debate in Britain and Ireland, demonstrating that aspects of hunter-gatherer lifestyles are presented as both the antithesis and antidote to perceived crises in contemporary society. We apply an anthropological lens to four areas of popular discourse: physical health, mental health, bushcraft, and survivalism. We identify how the imagined hunter-gatherer in these debates is constructed throu…
Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes
Mobility is considered to play an important role in the way people use their habitual space. Highly mobile societies present a particular challenge to archaeologists as a direct relation is assumed between the duration of occupation and the intensity of its archaeological signature. Here, we present a cross-cultural, ethnoarchaeological study carried out among three contemporary societies that, while showing different patterns of mobility, all li…
The freedom to stop being free
This paper examines education programmes for South Indian Nayaka, traditionally classified as hunter-gatherers and officially recognised as one of India’s poorest populations. With persistently high school dropout rates among their children, Nayaka parents find themselves today at the focus of formal education initiatives, constructed both as a central obstacle for children’s success in school and as responsible to facilitate it. The paper focuse…
Potentials and limitations for the identification of outdoor dung plasters in humid tropical environment
Dung has been an important material used by humans since at least the early Neolithic Period. It accumulated within domesticated animal enclosures and it was used as fuel and fertiliser as well as construction material. While the formers were studied in details, to date, the use of dung as a construction material received less attention. Here, we present a geo-ethnoarchaeological pilot study aimed at understanding the archaeological formation pro…
How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Social and Gender Norms? A Meta-Ethnographic Review
Forager societies tend to value egalitarianism, cooperative autonomy, and sharing. Furthermore, foragers exhibit a strong gendered division of labor. However, few studies have employed a cross-cultural approach to understand how forager children learn social and gender norms. To address this gap, we perform a meta-ethnography, which allows for the systematic extraction, synthesis, and comparison of quantitative and qualitative publications. In al…
Hunter-gatherer sharing
How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Subsistence Skills
Hunting and gathering is, evolutionarily, the defining subsistence strategy of our species. Studying how children learn foraging skills can, therefore, provide us with key data to test theories about the evolution of human life history, cognition, and social behavior. Modern foragers, with their vast cultural and environmental diversity, have mostly been studied individually. However, cross-cultural studies allow us to extrapolate forager-wide tr…
Hunter-gatherer situations
How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Subsistence Skills
Hunting and gathering is, evolutionarily, the defining subsistence strategy of our species. Studying how children learn foraging skills can, therefore, provide us with key data to test theories about the evolution of human life history, cognition, and social behavior. Modern foragers, with their vast cultural and environmental diversity, have mostly been studied individually. However, cross-cultural studies allow us to extrapolate forager-wide tr…
Potentials and limitations for the identification of outdoor dung plasters in humid tropical environment
Dung has been an important material used by humans since at least the early Neolithic Period. It accumulated within domesticated animal enclosures and it was used as fuel and fertiliser as well as construction material. While the formers were studied in details, to date, the use of dung as a construction material received less attention. Here, we present a geo-ethnoarchaeological pilot study aimed at understanding the archaeological formation pro…
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer
We examine how hunter-gatherers are imagined in popular debate in Britain and Ireland, demonstrating that aspects of hunter-gatherer lifestyles are presented as both the antithesis and antidote to perceived crises in contemporary society. We apply an anthropological lens to four areas of popular discourse: physical health, mental health, bushcraft, and survivalism. We identify how the imagined hunter-gatherer in these debates is constructed throu…
Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes
Mobility is considered to play an important role in the way people use their habitual space. Highly mobile societies present a particular challenge to archaeologists as a direct relation is assumed between the duration of occupation and the intensity of its archaeological signature. Here, we present a cross-cultural, ethnoarchaeological study carried out among three contemporary societies that, while showing different patterns of mobility, all li…
Hunter-gatherer situations
Hunter-gatherer sharing
How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Subsistence Skills
Hunting and gathering is, evolutionarily, the defining subsistence strategy of our species. Studying how children learn foraging skills can, therefore, provide us with key data to test theories about the evolution of human life history, cognition, and social behavior. Modern foragers, with their vast cultural and environmental diversity, have mostly been studied individually. However, cross-cultural studies allow us to extrapolate forager-wide tr…
How Do Hunter-Gatherer Children Learn Social and Gender Norms? A Meta-Ethnographic Review
Forager societies tend to value egalitarianism, cooperative autonomy, and sharing. Furthermore, foragers exhibit a strong gendered division of labor. However, few studies have employed a cross-cultural approach to understand how forager children learn social and gender norms. To address this gap, we perform a meta-ethnography, which allows for the systematic extraction, synthesis, and comparison of quantitative and qualitative publications. In al…
The freedom to stop being free
This paper examines education programmes for South Indian Nayaka, traditionally classified as hunter-gatherers and officially recognised as one of India’s poorest populations. With persistently high school dropout rates among their children, Nayaka parents find themselves today at the focus of formal education initiatives, constructed both as a central obstacle for children’s success in school and as responsible to facilitate it. The paper focuse…
Potentials and limitations for the identification of outdoor dung plasters in humid tropical environment
Dung has been an important material used by humans since at least the early Neolithic Period. It accumulated within domesticated animal enclosures and it was used as fuel and fertiliser as well as construction material. While the formers were studied in details, to date, the use of dung as a construction material received less attention. Here, we present a geo-ethnoarchaeological pilot study aimed at understanding the archaeological formation pro…
Research note
We recently conducted a review of the literature regarding hunter-gatherer children’s schooling experiences in the global South (Ninkova et al 2024). In this research note, we highlight one central finding of our review: that the autonomy granted to hunter-gatherer children determines their participation in school. Children decide for themselves whether they will attend. Children also decide for themselves whether they will pursue alternative end…
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer
We examine how hunter-gatherers are imagined in popular debate in Britain and Ireland, demonstrating that aspects of hunter-gatherer lifestyles are presented as both the antithesis and antidote to perceived crises in contemporary society. We apply an anthropological lens to four areas of popular discourse: physical health, mental health, bushcraft, and survivalism. We identify how the imagined hunter-gatherer in these debates is constructed throu…
Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes
Mobility is considered to play an important role in the way people use their habitual space. Highly mobile societies present a particular challenge to archaeologists as a direct relation is assumed between the duration of occupation and the intensity of its archaeological signature. Here, we present a cross-cultural, ethnoarchaeological study carried out among three contemporary societies that, while showing different patterns of mobility, all li…
Hunter-Gatherer Children at School
Universal formal education is a major global development goal. Yet hunter-gatherer communities have extremely low participation rates in formal schooling, even in comparison with other marginalized groups. Here, we review the existing literature to identify common challenges faced by hunter-gatherer children in formal education systems in the Global South. We find that hunter-gatherer children are often granted extensive personal autonomy, which …
Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge
Archaeology (6 works) · Hunter-gatherer (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)