The Demography of small-scale societies
Subtitle: case studies from lowland South America
By: Kathleen Adams and David Price, editors
Series: South American Indian studies -- no. 4
Publisher: Bennington College
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Bennington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Indians of South America; Population
Notes: Outgrowth of the South American Indian Conference held annually at Bennington College since 1977.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Demographic change and marriage choices in one Carib family  -- Kathleen Adams; title: What is a population? Spouse import in the northwest Amazon  -- Janet M. Chernela; title: Demographic crisis and recovery: a case study of the Xavante of Pimentel Barbosa  -- Nancy Flowers; title: Observations about a central Brazilian indigenous population: the Bakairi  -- Debra Picchi; title: Some demographic aspects of the Canela Indians of Brazil  -- Margaret E. Greene and William H. Crocker; title: Notes on Nambiquara demography  -- David Price; title: Cultural change, polygyny, and fertility among the Shipibo of the Peruvian Amazon -- Warren M. Hern.