Microdemographic Determinants of Population Recovery Among the Northern Ache

Authors

Jack D. Baker Jr, University of New MexicoFollow
Kim Hill, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
A. Magdalena Hurtado, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Adelamar Alcantara, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Eddie Hunsinger, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Juneau, AK
Webb Sprague, Washington Office of Financial Management, Olympia, WA

Document Type

Open Access Preprint

Anticipated Volume

87

Anticipated Issue

1

Final Published Version

http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol87/iss1/2/

Abstract

A pattern of population crash and rapid recovery is a common feature of the pacification and settlement experience of the Indigenous Peoples of tropical South America. In spite of the obvious importance of these events to the demographic and anthropological sciences as a whole, as well as their significant practical implications, little is known about the microdemographic determinants of these paired phenomena. Utilizing methods of asymptotic and stochastic demographic analysis, we reconstruct the microdemographic drivers of this history among one Indigenous population: the Northern Ache of Eastern Paraguay. We then explore the implications of these relationships for understanding the overall demographic turnaround being observed within similar groups as well as for the future trajectory of the Northern Ache in particular.

Recommended Citation

Baker, Jack D. Jr; Hill, Kim; Hurtado, A. Magdalena; Alcantara, Adelamar; Hunsinger, Eddie; and Sprague, Webb, "Microdemographic Determinants of Population Recovery Among the Northern Ache" (2015). Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints. 70.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_preprints/70