Demography of the Dobe !Kung / Nancy Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Nancy.

Series:

Evolutionary foundations of human behavior

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

!Kung (African people).

Physical Description:

xxii, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [2000]

Contents:

1 An Overview of the Population Study of a Hunting and Gathering People

The !Kung as an "Ethnographic Analogy": Problems of Valid Generalization 3

The Dobe Area 6

The Duration of the !Kung Adaptation: Refugees or Aborigines? 9

The Status of the !Kung in the 1960s 16

The Definition of the Population of the Dobe Area !Kung 17

2 Age Estimation and Age Structure

Demographic Techniques of Assessment and Correction of Age Estimates 24

Age Structure of the Population 41

3 Causes of Sickness and Death

Sanitary Conditions and Customs That Affect Mortality 48

Social Costs of Morbidity and Mortality 51

Occupational Hazards of the Hunting and Gathering Way of Life 54

Interpersonal Violence, Homicide, and Suicide 59

Infectious and Communicable Diseases 62

Degenerative Disease 66

Causes of Death in Comparative Perspective 68

4 The Measurement of Mortality

The Conceptual Framework of Life-Table Analysis 73

Model Life Tables 75

!Kung Mortality 80

5 Simulating Mortality

The Universe of !Kung-like Populations 100

Simulating !Kung-like Populations 101

Life-Table Indicators of Mortality 104

AMBUSH Perspectives on Assessment of the !Kung Mortality Data 114

6 An Overview of !Kung Women's Fertility: Completed Reproductive Careers

The Measurement of Fertility 122

Production of Live Births 123

Entrance into the Childbearing Population: Age at First Birth 128

Birth Intervals and Their Evidence for Fertility Limitation 133

Causes of Low Parity 135

7 Fertility Performance, 1963-1973

Age Patterns of Current Fertility 138

Numbers of Children Born Per Woman 145

The Length of Birth Intervals 146

Summary of Fertility Performance, 1963-1973 151

8 !Kung Fertility Performance in Comparative Perspective

Comparison Populations 153

Parity Progression Ratios 156

Age-Specific Marital Fertility Rates and Patterns 158

Declining Fertility with Age 160

Duration of the Reproductive Span and the Length of Birth Intervals 162

The !Kung and the Hutterites: Accounting for the Differences 165

9 Primary and Secondary Sterility: Normal and Pathological Causes

Primary Sterility 167

Secondary Sterility 181

The Costs of Venereal Disease to the !Kung 185

10 Fatness and Pertility

Frisch's Critical Fatness Hypothesis 190

Application to the !Kung 192

The Status of the Critical Fatness Hypothesis 210

11 Population Size, Growth Rates, and the Age Distribution: Simulations of Fertility and Mortality

Population Growth in the !Kung Population 213

AMBUSH Simulations of Population Size and Growth 216

Assessing Errors in Age Estimation 223

Inadequacies of This Simple Simulation 225

12 Marriage and Remarriage Among the !Kung

Prohibited Spouses 228

Preferential Criteria for Selection of Spouses, and the "Marriage Market" 229

Marital and Non-Marital Sexual Behavior 231

Legitimacy and Custody of Children 232

Marital Status of Adults in 1968 233

The "Two-Sex Problem" in Marriage 247

Marriage Success Rates for Men and Women 248

Sources of Recent Change in Marriage 252

13 Fertility Performance of !Kung Men

Growth and Development of !Kung Men 253

Age at First Marriage 258

Men's Age-Specific Fertility Rates 261

Men's Fertility by Age and Age of Wife 265

Differential Success 267

Men's Parity Distributions 269

Population Growth as Measured Through the Male Generation 273

14 The Simulation of Fertility within Marriage

The AMBUSH Method for Generating Marriages 278

The AMBUSH Method for Generating Births for Marriages 281

Viability of the Simulated Populations 286

Age Distribution 286

Marital Status in the Simulated Populations 288

Fertility Performance in the Simulated Populations 291

Parity of Newborns and Generational Growth 299

A Review and Overview of the Simulations 303

15 Social Structural Implications of Demographic Parameters: Kinship Ties and Kinship Groups

The Cultural Definitions of Kinship 306

Variability in Kin Ties 307

The Total Inventory of Kin 322

Households and Kinship Groups 324

Number of Simultaneously Living Generations 328

Kinship Relations as Resources 329

The Early Social Prominence of Women 329

Kinship and Demography: Review and Overview 330

16 Genetic Implications of !Kung Demography

The Demographic Facts of !Kung Women's Lives 334

Demographic Facts of Genetic Transmission: Men's Rates 338

The Opportunity for Natural Selection 340

Microevolution on the Allelic Level 346

The Distribution of Number of Allelic Copies Transmitted per Parent 348

Changes in the Allelic Proportions per Generation: Microevolution 350

Population Size, Isolation, and Random Drift 355

Implications of !Kung Demography for Genetic Transmission: Review and Overview 358

17 History and Future of the Dobe !Kung Population

Return to Dobe 362

Population Trends: 1968

2000 371

Dobe in the 1970s 372

Dobe in the 1980s 375

Dobe in the 1990s 376

Summary of Trends in Population Parameters over Time 377.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index.

ISBN:

020230650X

0202306496

0202020495

OCLC:

44634234