Life history and livelihood strategies in the Colombian Chocó
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Colombia has been characterized by extreme levels of violence throughout the latter part of the twentieth century, and the country continues to be one of the most dangerous in the world in terms of violent deaths. There were at least 527,718 deaths due to violence in Colombia during 1985-2005, of which nearly 90 percent occurred among men. As a result, Colombia is one of few countries in the world where women outnumber men in both young and old age. Human behavioral ecology and life history theory offer a number of implications for phenomena such as marriage, migration, and gender relations in violent settings where men are in short supply. This work combines demographic data from government registries and household surveys with ethnographic research among Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities in the Chocó region. Multiple decrement life table analysis reveals that intentional injury deaths were responsible for as much as 14 years of lost life expectancy among men in affected regions. Analysis suggests that by weakening women's bargaining position in gender interactions, female-biased sex ratios may be partly responsible for increasingly high frequencies of consensual unions, female rural-urban migration, and intimate partner violence. Clear interactions between sex ratios, time preferences, and life history decision-making in Colombia underscore the importance of life history perspectives for public policy in regions affected by violence.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ferguson, Brodie David |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
| Primary advisor | Jones, James Holland |
| Thesis advisor | Jones, James Holland |
| Thesis advisor | Bird, Rebecca (Rebecca Bliege) |
| Thesis advisor | Durham, William H |
| Advisor | Bird, Rebecca (Rebecca Bliege) |
| Advisor | Durham, William H |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Brodie Ferguson. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2010 by Brodie David Ferguson
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