Department of Anthropology

Barry Hewlett

Position: Professor
Office: VMMC 202R
Phone: 360-546-9449

Biographical sketch

After receiving my BA (1971) and MA (1976) from California State University, Chico, I worked several years for social service and child development agencies, such as Head Start. I traveled to Africa for the first time in 1971 after completing my BA and started conducting field research in 1973. I decided to return to graduate school in 1983 to pursue a PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara and obtained my PhD in 1987. Dr. Napoleon Chagnon was chair of my committee and Dr. Michael Jochim (archaeologist) and Dr. David Brokensha (applied anthropologist) were committee members. My dissertation became the basis for my first monograph, Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Care. I have had appointments at Shasta College, California State University, Chico, Southern Oregon University, Oregon State University and Tulane University. I have made over twenty field trips to the Central African Republic and other central African countries and feel fortunate to be able to live with and learn from the Aka and other forest peoples.

Research

I have two general topical interest areas: the anthropology of childhood and the anthropology of infectious and parasitic diseases. Specific topical interests in childhood include: father-child relations, cosleeping, alllomaternal care, allonursing and variability in the attachment processes and the development of internal working models. Interests within the anthropology of infectious diseases include: local cultural models of disease, incorporating anthropological approaches to disease control efforts and emerging diseases. Theoretically, I am interested in evolutionary approaches to culture and biocultural approaches to the topics listed above.

Caterpillar moon

Great movie, watch it here.

Course readings and other information

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Courses

Anth 203 Peoples of the World
Anth 302 Childhood and Culture
Anth 309 Cultural Ecology
Anth 406 Epidemic Diseases and Bioterrorism
Anth 469 Genes, Culture and Human Diversity
Anth 490 Integrative Themes in Anthropology
Anth 569 Evolutionary Cultural Anthropology

Graduate students

Adam Boyette
evolutionary cultural anthropology, social learning, cultural transmission, childhood, foragers

Research projects

Selected publications

Books

LNK Hewlett BS and Hewlett BL 2008. Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease. Wadsworth Cengage.
PDF Hewlett BS and Lamb ME 2005. Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives. Transaction/Aldine.
PDF Hewlett BS 1996. Diverse Contexts of Human Infancy. Prentice Hall.
LNK Hewlett BS (ed.) 1992. Father-Child Relations: Cultural and Biosocial Contexts. Aldine.
PDF Hewlett BS 1991. Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care. University of Michigan Press.

Preprints

PDF Helfrecht C, Hess NH, Hagen EH, Sell A and Hewlett BS 2009. Interpersonal aggression among Aka hunter-gatherers of the Central African Republic: Assessing the effects of sex, strength, and anger.

Articles

PDF Becker NSA, Verdu, P, Hewlett, B and S Pavard 2010. Can life history trade-offs explain the evolution of short stature in human pygmies: A response to Migliano and colleagues. Human Biology.
PDF Hewlett, BS 2009. An evolutionary biocultural approach to the organization of intracultural diversity. Ethos.
PDF Fouts H, Hewlett BS and Lamb ME 2005. Weaning and parent-offspring conflict in Bofi foragers and farmers. Current Anthropology, 46, 29-50.
PDF Hewlett, BL and Hewlett, BS 2005. Providing care and facing death: Nurses and Ebola in Central Africa. Transcultural Journal of Nursing, 16, 289-297.
LNK Hewlett BS and Amola R 2003. Cultural contexts of Ebola in Northern Uganda. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9, 1242-1248.
PDF Hewlett BS, Silvertri A and Gugliemino CR 2002. Semes and genes in Africa. Current Anthropology, 43, 313-321.
PDF Fouts HN, Hewlett BS and Lamb ME 2001. Weaning and the nature of early childhood interactions among Bofi foragers in central Africa. Human Nature, 12, 27-46.
PDF Noss, A and Hewlett, BS 2001. The contexts of female hunting in central Africa. American Anthropologist, 103, 1024-1040.
PDF Hewlett BS 2000. Culture, history and sex: Anthrpological perspectives on father involvement. Marriage and Family Review, 29, 324-340.
PDF Hewlett BS, Lamb ME, Leyendecker B and Scholmerick A 2000. Internal working models, trust, and sharing among foragers. Current Anthropology, 41, 287-297.
PDF MacDonald DH and Hewlett BS 1999. Reproductive interests and forager mobility. Current Anthropology, 40, 501-523.
PDF Hewlett BS, Lamb ME, Shannon D, Leyendecker B, Scholmerich A 1998. Culture and early infancy among central African foragers and farmers. Developmental Psychology, 34, 653-651.
PDF Hewlett BS and Cline BL 1997. Anthropological contributions to a community-based schistosomiasis control project in northern Cameroon. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2, A25-A36.
PDF Hewlett BS, Kollo B and Cline BL 1996. Ivermectin distribution and cultural context of "forest" onchocerciasis in South Province, Cameroon. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 54, 517-522.
PDF Gugliemino CR, Hewlett BS, Viganotti C and Cavalli Sforza LL 1995. Mechanisms of sociocultural transmission and models of culture change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 92, 7585-7589.
PDF Hewlett BS and Cavalli Sforza LL 1992. Barkcloth designs of Mbuti women. Human Mosaic, 25, 1-9.
PDF Hewlett BS 1991. Demography and childcare in preindustrial societies. Journal of Anthropological Research, 47, 1-37.
PDF Walker PL and Hewlett BS 1990. Dental health, diet and social status among central African foragers and farmers. American Anthropologist, 91, 270-276.
PDF Hewlett BS 1989. Multiple care among African Pygmies. American Anthropologist, 91, 270-276.
PDF Hewlett BS and Cavalli Sforza LL 1986. Cultural transmission among Aka pygmies. American Anthropologist, 88, 922-934.

Chapters

— Leach M and Hewlett BS 2010. Haemorrhagic fevers: Narratives, politics and pathways. In Emerging Diseases.
PDF Hewlett, BS and MacFarlan, SJ 2009. Fathers' roles in hunter-gatherers and other small-scale cultures. In: The Role of the Father in Child Development (5th Edition), ME Lamb (ed).
PDF Hewlett BL and Hewlett BS 2008. A biocultural approach to sex, love and intimacy in central African foragers and farmers. In Intimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures, W Jankowiak (ed.).
PDF Hewlett BS 2008. Fathers and infants among Aka pygmies. In: Anthropology and Child Development, RA LeVine and RS New (eds.).
PDF Hewlett BS, Epelboin A, Hewlett BL and Formenty P 2005. Medical anthropology and Ebola in Congo: Cultural models and humanistic care. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 98, 230-237.
PDF Hewlett BS 2004. Fathers in forager, farmer and pastoral cultures. In: The Role of Father in Child Development, ME Lamb (ed.).
PDF Hewlett BS and Lamb ME 2002. Integrating evolution, culture and developmental psychology: explaining caregiver-infant proximity and responsiveness in central Africa and the USA. In: Between Culture and Biology: Perspectives on Ontogenetic Development, H Keller, Y Portinga and A Scholmerich (eds.).
PDF Hewlett BS 2001. Neoevolutionary perspectives on human kinship, In: New Directions in Kinship Studies, L Stone (ed).
PDF Hewlett BS, Kollo B and Cline BL 2000. Central African government's and NGO's perception of Baka Pygmy development. In Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination, Schweitzer, PP, Biesele M and Hitchcock RK (eds.).
PDF Hewlett BS, Lamb ME, Leyendecker B, Scholmerich 2000. Parental investment strategies among Aka foragers, Ngandu farmers and Euro-American urban industrialists. In: Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior 20 Years Later, L Cronk, N Chagnon and W Irons (eds.).
PDF Hewlett BS 1997. Cultural nexus of Aka fatherhood. In: Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, CB Brettel and C Sargent (eds.).
PDF Hewlett BS 1996. Cultural diversity among African pygmies. In: Cultural Diveristy among Twentieth-Century Foragers: An African Perspective, S. Kent (ed.).
PDF Hewlett, BS, Lamb, ME, Leyendecker, B, Scholmerick, A 1996. Cultural diversity among African pygmies. In: Cultural Diveristy among Twentieth-Century Foragers: An African Perspective, S. Kent (ed.).
PDF Bailey RC, Bahuchet S and Hewlett BS 1992. Development in the central African rainforest: Concern for forest peoples. In Conservation of West and Central African Rainforests. The World Bank.
PDF Hewlett BS 1992. The parent-child relationship and social emotional development among Aka pygmies. In: Parent-Child Relations in Diverse Cultures, JL Roopnarine and B Segal (eds.).
PDF Hewlett BS 1991. Aka pygmies of the Western Congo Basin. In: Intimate Fathers.
PDF Hewlett BS 1988. Sexual selection and paternal investment among Aka pygmies. In: Human Reproductive Behavior: A Darwinian Perspective, L Betzig, P Turke M Borgerhoff Mulder (eds.).
PDF Hewlett BS, van de Koppel JMH and van de Koppel M 1986. Causes of death among Aka pygmies of the Central African Republic. In: African Pygmies, Cavalli Sforza, LL (ed.).

Presentations

PDF Hagen EH, Roulette C, Hewlett BS, Sullivan RJ, Laganier R 2009. Drug use as potential protection against pathogens: Tobacco vs. helminth load in Aka foragers.
PDF Helfrecht C, Hess NH, Hagen E, Sell A and Hewlett B 2009. Anger and aggression among Aka hunter-gatherers. The evolution of human aggression. Utah.
PDF Hewlett BS 2009. Victims of discrimination: An anthropological science critique of human rights and missionary narratives of African Pygmy marginalization.

Other

PDF Hewlett BS 1996. African forest foragers and rural development.

Barry with Boseke who had lead role in Aka film "Caterpillar Moon"
 
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