Demography of the Dobe KungTransaction Publishers - 389 pages |
Contents
Refugees or Aborigines? | 9 |
The Status of the Kung in the 1960s | 16 |
AGE ESTIMATION AND AGE STRUCTURE | 23 |
Age Structure of the Population | 41 |
CAUSES OF SICKNESS AND DEATH | 47 |
THE MEASUREMENT OF MORTALITY | 73 |
Kung Mortality | 80 |
SIMULATING MORTALITY | 99 |
Marital Status of Adults in 1968 | 233 |
The TwoSex Problem in Marriage | 247 |
13 | 253 |
Mens AgeSpecific Fertility Rates | 261 |
Differential Success | 267 |
Population Growth as Measured Through the Male Generation | 273 |
The AMBUSH Method for Generating Births for Marriages | 281 |
Marital Status in the Simulated Populations | 288 |
AMBUSH Perspectives on Assessment of the Kung Mortality Data | 114 |
The Measurement of Fertility | 122 |
Age at First Birth | 128 |
Causes of Low Parity | 135 |
FERTILITY PERFORMANCE 19631973 | 137 |
8 | 153 |
Declining Fertility with Age | 160 |
9 | 166 |
Secondary Sterility | 181 |
FATNESS AND FERTILITY | 189 |
The Status of the Critical Fatness Hypothesis | 210 |
AMBUSH Simulations of Population Size and Growth | 216 |
12 | 227 |
Parity of Newborns and Generational Growth | 299 |
The Cultural Definitions of Kinship | 306 |
The Total Inventory of Kin | 322 |
Number of Simultaneously Living Generations | 328 |
The Demographic Facts of Kung Womens Lives | 334 |
The Opportunity for Natural Selection | 340 |
Microevolution on the Allelic Level | 346 |
Population Size Isolation and Random Drift | 355 |
17 | 361 |
19682000 | 371 |
Summary of Trends in Population Parameters over Time | 377 |
References | 383 |
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9 Age adult age distribution age estimation age group age-specific fertility rates alleles AMBUSH average Bantu birth intervals Botswana calculated cattlepost Chapter child childbearing cohort computed data collection demographic differences disease divorce Dobe area expected fatness females fertility performance Figure final birth fluctuations gene genetic growth Harpending Hereros households hunter-gatherers hunters hunting and gathering husband Hutterites hypothesis individuals infertile Kalahari kinship Kung language Kung population Kung women large number life-table males marital marriage married mean age menarche microevolution model life tables months mother Namibia natural fertility natural selection number of births number of children number of deaths Nyae observed parameters parents parity distribution parity progression ratios Percentage period person polygamous pregnancy probability of death proportion relatively reproduction rate reproductive success risk sexual shows siblings simulated populations small number spouses surviving survivorship survivorship curve tion Tswana variability variance village weight wife woman younger