essay
Age, sex, and resource transport in Venezuelan foragers
From biped to strider : the emergence of modern human walking, running, and resource transport • New York • Published In 2004 • Pages: 163-181
By: Hilton, Charles E., Greaves, Russell Dean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a study of age and sex patterns of resource transport among the Pumé. The authors collected data on burden size and distanced carried by age and sex for 101 wet and dry season foraging trips. They found that male and female mobility patterns are affected by seasonal change and food availability. Men travel long distances across flooded savanna in the wet season to hunt game. In the dry season, fish and fowl are concentrated and easier to procure. Women travel shorter distances and carry more food in their wet season foraging for tubers, with older non-reproductive women carrying heavier loads, up to one-third their body weight, twice the burden of younger females, and five times the burden of men. Dry season forgaging of mangos requires traveling longer distances and carrying heavier loads, which can be as high as 100 pecent of body weight. While men in their subsistence activities are more far ranging, women carry heavier loads.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food quest
- Settlement patterns
- Division of labor by gender
- Burden carrying
- Travel
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pumé
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1990, 1992-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1990-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Doro Aná, Capanaparo river region, eastern Apure, Venezuela
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles E. Hilton and Russell D. Greaves
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2003060287
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yaruro Indians