Gender Segregation in Early-Childhood Social Play among the Bofi Foragers and Bofi Farmers in Central Africa

Autor/inn/en	Fouts, Hillary N.; Hallam, Rena A.; Purandare, Swapna
Titel	Gender Segregation in Early-Childhood Social Play among the Bofi Foragers and Bofi Farmers in Central Africa
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 5 (2013) 3, S.333-356 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Play; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Age Differences; Rural Areas; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Development; Cultural Differences; Agricultural Occupations; Ethnography; Observation; Infants; Toddlers; Mixed Methods Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Multivariate Analysis; Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Spiel; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Soziale Entwicklung; Kultureller Unterschied; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Ethnografie; Beobachtung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Multivariate Analyse; Afrika
Abstract	Gender segregation in early-childhood social play is a pervasive pattern in North America, and child-development scholars have suggested it is a human universal. But very few researchers have looked at gender segregation in small-scale societies, particularly those of hunter-gatherers, whom the authors here call foragers. The authors present their observations of fifty-six, one- to four-year-old children living in two small-scale cultures--Bofi farmers and Bofi foragers--in Central Africa. They examined gender and age variation in the social play of these two groups and found that three- to four-year-olds became more segregated by gender than one- to two-year-olds and that boys in particular showed a tendency to play with other boys. The authors also found that cultural differences became more manifest as gender segregation grew more prominent among the children of Bofi farmers than Bofi foragers. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10