标题: How Indigenous People Spent Nights Over Campfire [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-27-2014 10:11 标题: How Indigenous People Spent Nights Over Campfire Human evolution | Fireside Tales; The invention of fire may explain the preference for evening entertainment. Economist, Sept 27, 2014/ www.economist.com/news/science-a ... -preference-evening
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(a) "IT SEEMS a universal human rule that the day is for work and the night for play. So a study showing this applies to Kalahari Bushmen as much as to city sophisticates might look unremarkable. But the Ju/’hoansi of northern Botswana do not have electric lighting (or, at least, they did not in the 1970s, when the data in question were gathered)."
(i) For Kalahari Bushmen, see
(A) San people
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people
("The San people (or Saan), also known as Bushmen or Basarwa – all considered pejorative to some degree[--include] he southern people in the central Kalahari towards the Molopo River")
(B) Kalahari Desert
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalahari_Desert
(a large semi-arid sandy savannah in southern Africa; section 1 Description)
(ii) "Ju/’hoansi of northern Botswana" are part of San people.
(b) Wiessner PW, Embers of Society: Firelight Talk Among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen. Proc Nat Acad Sci, _: _ (online publication Sept 22, 2014) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246574
(abstract)
(c) "The day/night division of conversation could, of course, just be cultural. It is hard to hunt at night, so it makes sense to tell yarns then."
(i) yarn (n):
“[summary:] a long, thin piece of cotton, wool, etc., that is thicker than thread and that is used for knitting and weaving
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2: a narrative of adventures; especially : a tall tale <a roaring good yarn>” www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yarn
(ii) yarn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn
(iii) yarn (n): "The phrase to spin a yarn ‘to tell a story’ is first attested 1812, from a sailors' expression, on notion of telling stories while engaged in sedentary work such as yarn-twisting.”
Online Etymology Dictionary, undated. www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yarn