SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 22, 2014 – After human ancestors controlled fire 400,000 to 1 million years ago, flames not only let them cook food and fend off predators, but also extended their day. A ...
A study of Africa's Kalahari Bushmen suggests that stories told over firelight helped human culture and thought evolve by reinforcing social traditions, promoting harmony and equality, and sparking ...
DER is a documentary film distributor best known for its series on the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. The company was cofounded in 1968 by filmmaker John Marshall (1932-2005), whose ...
Trance healers of the African Ju/'hoansi (Kung!) people seen through the flames. Telling stories around a campfire may have served as one of the first forms of "social media," helping humans create ...
A group of !Kung Bushmen in Africa's Kalahari Desert work together to transcribe and translate a recorded firelight conversation into a written text. Such translations were used by University of Utah ...
The ecological and social bases of spatial organization among hunters and gatherers are examined. After criticizing the patrilocal band model of social organization, the author documents the flexible, ...
In Moral Origins, social anthropologist Christopher Boehm charts the history of how we evolved our sense of doing what’s right EGALITARIAN communities have some interesting ways to restore social ...
The "pepper-corn" haired bushmen of remote Africa will receive a visit this year from members of an expedition sponsored jointly by the Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institute. The visitors plan ...
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