Ache Life History - The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People

The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part exemplary ethnography of the Ache and in larger part uses this population to make a signal contribution to human evolutionary ecology.

List of contents

1: Life History and Demography; 2: The Ache; 3: Study Population and Sampling Methods; 4: Age and Sex Structure of the Study Population; 5: Causes of Mortality; 6: Rates of Mortality; 7: Development, Marriage, and Other Life Course Events; 8: Female Fertility; 9: Male Fertility; 10: Resource Availability, Intrinsic Variation, and Life Cycle Constraints; 11: Body Size and the Timing of Sexual Maturity; 12: Life History Trade-offs and Phenotypic Correlations; 13: Kin Effects on Life History; 14: Conclusions

About the author

Peter L. P. Simpson

Product details

• Authors: Kim Hill, A. Magdalena Hurtado, Hurtado A.Magdalena
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1995
• EAN: 9780202020372
• ISBN: 978-0-202-02037-2
• No. of pages: 581
• Weight: 793 g
• Series: Foundations of Human Behavior
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social groups, Social and cultural anthropology, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Social groups, communities and identities