NP - All Work and No Play Make the Baining the "Dullest Culture on Earth"

[David Morris]

The Baining are small-scale agriculturalists, who subsist on their
gardens and the few animals they raise. In their style of life and
attitudes they are in many ways the opposite of hunter-gatherers,
including those hunter-gatherers to whom they are closely related.
Hunter-gatherers love the bush, or forest; value freedom and
individual initiative; and are extraordinarily playful in their daily
lives and especially value play among children. Hunter-gatherer
children are allowed to play all day, every day, from dawn to dusk,
and in that way they acquire the subsistence skills, social skills,
and personal traits and values that characterize their culture. In
contrast, the Baining shun the bush, which they view as chaotic and
dangerous, and they derogate play, especially that among children.