Dr. Barry S. Hewlett
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor, Vancouver
Cultural and Evolutionary Anthropology
Research
Medical anthropology, infant and child development, hunter-gatherers, evolutionary cultural anthropology, sub-Saharan Africa
Courses
Anth 302 Childhood and Culture, Anth 309 Contemporary Peoples and Cultures of Africa, Anth 405 Medical Anthropology, Anth 468 Sex, Evolution and Human Nature, Anth 469 Genes, Culture and Human Diversity
Barry S. Hewlett [Professor at WSU-Vancouver] received his A.B. in Cultural Transmission (self-designed major) from California State University, Chico in 1971 and his M.A. in anthropology from the same institution in 1977. After working several years for child development and social service agencies, he returned to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara and obtained his Ph.D. in 1987. His dissertation became the basis of a monograph, Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care (1991). His current research interests include the cultural nexus of the Aka and Ngandu infant development, the cultural contexts of various tropical diseases, the impact of new African tropical forest parks and reserves on the local people, and cultural transmission and biocultural evolution.
Representative Publications
Hewlett, Barry S. and Michael E. Lamb, Eds. 2005. Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives. Hawthorne, NY: Transaction/Aldine de Gruyter.
Hewlett, Bonnie L. and Barry S. Hewlett. 2005. Providing care and facing death: Nurses and Ebola in Central Africa. Transcultural Nursing 16: 289-297.
Fouts, Hillary, Barry S. Hewlett and Michael E. Lamb. 2005. Weaning and parent-offspring conflict in Bofi foragers and farmers. Current Anthropology 46:29-50.
Hewlett, Barry S. and Richard Amola. 2003 Culture and Ebola in Northern Uganda. Emerging Infectious Diseases 9: 1242-1248. [text]
Hewlett, Barry S., Annalisa de Silvertri and C. Rosalba Gugliemino. 2002. Semes and Genes in Africa. Current Anthropology 43:313-321.
Noss, Andrew J. and Barry S. Hewlett. 2001. The Contexts of Female Hunting in Central Africa. American Anthropologist 103(2): 1024-1040. [text]
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