Table 1 Description of children’s activities
Cluster | Category | Activities |
|---|---|---|
Subsistence-related activities | Household maintenance | Fetching water; collecting firewood; washing clothes/dishes; sweeping house; cooking. |
Hunting | Hunting small animals with traps; hunting with sling, bow and arrows, or stones; collective hunting; hunting cable snares; hunting with spear; unearth game with smoke; wheel and “lékà” playing. | |
Gathering | Gathering of sub-spontaneous and/or wild edibles products. | |
Agricultural Work | Cleaning fields; planting or harvesting agricultural products in household’s or Nzime’s plots | |
Fishing | Collective fishing with dams; fishing with hook; fishing with net. | |
Handicraft | Making toys in Raphia sp.; building replicates of | |
Non-subsistence related activities | Playa | Play with Baka children; collective plays, such as hide-and-seek, and marbles; solitary plays as wheel/car pushing. |
Maintenance | Sleeping; resting; eating with Baka’. | |
Traditional songs, tales and dances | Performing Baka’s songs and dances; narrating tales; listening to tales. | |
Recently introduced activities | Listening to music | Listening to modern music |
School | Attending school; doing homework | |
Other activities | Trade, hairdressing… | |
Football | Football playing | |
Alcohol drinking | ||
Socializing with Nzime children | Spending time with Nzime children (play, chatting…) |
; weaving mats and baskets.