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Changing patterns of infant mortality and maternal fertility among Pumé foragers and horticulturalistsarticle 2007 • Kramer, Karen & Greaves, Russel Dean
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a demographic study of infant mortality and fertility in several wet and dry season camps in the Capanaparo, Cinaruco, and Riecito Rivers region. In what they regard as an early stage of a demographic transition among the Pumé, the authors fi...Postmarital residence and bilateral kin associations among hunter-gathersarticle 2011 • Kramer, Karen & Greaves, Russell Dean
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
In this paper, the authors examine postmarital residence patterns over a 25-year period and discover a strong bias for natalocality, i.e., living in the community one is born. The authors argue that natalocality goes hand in hand with bilateral recog...Age, sex, and resource transport in Venezuelan foragersessay 2004 • Hilton, Charles E. & Greaves, Russell Dean
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
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 p...Early reproductive maturity among Pumé foragersarticle 2009 • Kramer, Karen et al.
Pumé • South America > Amazon and Orinoco
Pumé girls mature early and begin having children in their mid-teens in spite of seasonal food scarcity and general harsh conditions under which they grow up. The authors argue that traditions of food sharing and more leisurely foraging strategies pe...