Barry S. Hewlett is Professor of

Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

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, earned his A.B. and M.A. degrees at California State University, Chico and his Ph.D. from the

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. He is best known for his study of the Aka (Pygmy tribe) people of Central Africa. He has worked with his wife, Dr. Bonnie Hewlett, who concentrates her study on the Aka women and health issues. His publications include six books, 24 chapters in books and 27 scholarly journal articles. His research interests currently include the cultural influence of the Aka and Ngandu on 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 Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: ...

. His interests in infectious diseases include local cultural models of disease, incorporating anthropological approaches to disease control efforts, and emerging diseases including

Ebola Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after in ...

. Hewlett published a book chapter about Ebola in 2003 (''Culture and Ebola in Northern Uganda''), followed by two scholarly articles about Ebola in 2005 (''Providing care and facing death: nurses and Ebola in Central Africa; Medical anthropology and Ebola in Congo: Cultural models and humanistic care''), co-authored a book in 2008 on the subject (''Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease''), and another book chapter on Ebola in 2010 (''Haemorrhagic Fevers: Narrative, Politics, and Pathways'').

Books

*''Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin: Cultures, Histories and Biology of African Pygmies''. Transaction Books, 2014 (editor). *''Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease''. Wadsworth Centage, 2008 (co-author). *''Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives''. Transaction/Aldine, 2005 (co-author). *''Diverse Contexts of Human Infancy''. Prentice Hall, 1996, (author). *''Father-Child Relations: Cultural and Biocultural Contexts''. Aldine, 1992 (editor). *''Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care''.

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, 1991 (author).

Articles

*Providing care and facing death:nurses and Ebola in Central Africa. Transcultural Nursing, 2005, 16, 289-297 (co-author). *Weaning and parent-offspring conflict in Fofi foragers and farmers.

Current Anthropology ''Current Anthropology'' is a peer-reviewed anthropology academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Founded in 1959 by the anthropologist Sol Tax1907-1995. ''Curren ...

, 2005, 46-50 (co-author). *Culture and Ebola in Northern Uganda. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003, 9, 1242-1248 (co-author). *Semes and genes in Africa, Current Anthropology, 2002, 43, 313-321 (co-author). *The contexts of female hunting in Central Africa,

American Anthropologist ''American Anthropologist'' is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an American organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 m ...

, 2001, 103(2), 1024-1040 (c-author).

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