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The Time and energy expenditure of indigenous women horticulturists in the Northwest Amazon
American journal of physical anthropology • 65 • Published In 1984 • Pages: 37-46
By: Dufour, Darna L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the subsistence activities and the daily time and energy budgets of Tatuyo Indian women in the village of Yapú, Papurí River region, Colombian Vaupés, South America. The Tatuyo are swidden horticulturalists relying on bitter manioc as a staple crop. Except for the acutal clearing of trees for the establishment of a new garden, women are responsible for the major part of the agricultural work, including food preparation. In this article Dufour assesses the time budgets of the women based on 24 hour activity diaries (maintained by the author), and determines the rates of energy expenditure in typical activites measured by indirect calorimetry using a Max-Planck respirometer. The results indicate that the rates of energy expenditure in standard activities, measured at 2,133 kcal, was considered moderate and comparable to published values for other populations living in tropical environments (p. 37).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Nutrition
- Physiological data
- Labor and leisure
- Locomotion
- Burden carrying
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tukano
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Evaluation
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- November 1976-April 1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976-1978
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tatuyo Indians; village of Yapú, Papurí River region, Colombian Vaupés
- NotesAdditional notes
- Darna L. Dufour
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 46)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 20014728
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tukano Indians