Do foragers suffer

stress and depression?

A walk through the life of some hunter-gatherer friends.

 

Kim Hill, Ph.D.

 

Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

 

 

Tuesday, November 6

 4:00 P.M.  

Coffee and tea at 3:30

4448 East Hall

 

Précis

Evolutionary functional explanations of mind and emotions generally include numerous assumptions about the lives of our ancestors. These assumptions are often projected on to the living hunter-gatherers who supposedly provide a window into our past. But most theorists have never seen a hunter-gather let alone had close and intimate relationships that would allow them to assess some of their speculations on forager mind, emotions, and motivations. I will provide some insights based on nearly 25 years of research with several foraging peoples.  Particularly I focus on information that requires high language fluency to obtain.  Changes in mood and motives through the life course of foragers gives us some basic understanding of human psychological adaptations.

                                                           

Next Week, November 13

Deborah Carr: Do we choose our goals or do they choose us? How gender, cohort, and life stage mold goal formation and attainment.

 

The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program Lectures are sponsored by the LS&A Dean's Office,

the Research Center for Group Dynamics at ISR, and the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry

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