Book
The population dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomama
Academic Press • San Diego, Calif. • Published In 1990 • Pages:
By: Early, John D., Peters, John F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document investigates the population dynamics of a group of Yanoama Indians living in northern Brazil from the time of first permanent contact with them in 1958 to 1987. In the analysis of the data the authors use the methods of …'quantitative demography and qualitative ethnography' (p. xiii). The material is organized into four parts. Part one presents background information on the Micajai Yanoama, population dynamics in the precontact period, and a general overview of the 28-year post contact period. Part two presents an analysis of demographic variables. With the individual demographic variables defined, part three presents a synthesis of the data and describes the interaction of these variables with each other. Part four concludes the analysis by comparing the results with other Yanoama groups, thus allowing the extrapolation of the Mucajai material to the wider Yanoama area (p. xiv).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Composition of population
- Birth statistics
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Internal migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Settlement patterns
- Conception
- Abortion and infanticide
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yanoama
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1967, 1972, 1979, 1987 (Peters) (p.11)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mucajai River Valley, Brazil
- NotesAdditional notes
- John D. Early and John F. Peters
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-146) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yanoama Indians