Female subsistence strategies among Ache hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay

Ana Magdalena Hurtado; Kristen Hawkes; Kim Hill; Hillard Kaplan

doi:10.1007/BF01531086

Female subsistence strategies among Ache hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay

Ana Magdalena Hurtado, Kristen Hawkes, Kim Hill, Hillard Kaplan

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Abstract

Anthropologists have frequently proposed that sexual division of labor is produced by childcare constraints on women's subsistence work. We present data on the forest activities of Ache women that show that differences in parental investment partially account for variation in food acquisition among individual women. Data also suggest that childcare constraints are important in understanding the sexual division of labor.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-28
Number of pages	28
Journal	Human Ecology
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01531086
State	Published - Mar 1985
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

childcare
hunter-gatherers
sexual division of labor
subsistence work
women

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology
Anthropology
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science

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