Context Specificity of "Market Integration" among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2228871
AutoresM Mattison (0000-0002-9537-5459), Siobhán M Mattison, Darragh Hare (0000-0003-4418-9637), Neil G Maclaren (0000-0002-8478-8530), Adam Z Reynolds (0000-0002-2982-9299), Chun-Yi Sum (0000-0001-6507-9184), Ruizhe Liu (0000-0002-1829-8963), M K Shenk (0000-0003-2002-1469), Tami Blumenfield (0000-0001-5833-0123), M Su (0000-0001-7645-5237), Hui Li (0000-0001-9355-1116), K Wander (0000-0002-4913-5075)
Ano2022
Volume63
Fascículo1
Páginas118-124
Data de publicação2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/719266
OpenAlexW4220705182
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas27

Market integration (MI) is a complex process through which individuals integrate market-oriented activities into previously subsistence-dominated lifeways. Changes associated with MI alter the landscapes of individual health and reproductive decision-making. While the consequences of MI are often easily detected in aggregate, the specific aspects of MI that affect health and demography are context dependent and underinvestigated. We argue that an evolutionary perspective can inform such investigations by emphasizing individuals' responses to the opportunities and challenges presented by MI in their particular context. Among adult matrilineal Mosuo participants from six villages in southwest China who are experiencing rapid MI driven by ethnic tourism, we investigated relationships between multiple indicators of MI and three outcomes commonly associated with MI: waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, and age at first reproduction. Different MI indicators distributed across individual, household, and community levels of social organization predicted these outcomes. This suggests that commonly used simple metrics of MI can usefully be supplemented by additional context-appropriate indicators of MI. Evolutionary theory and other frameworks that situate hypotheses of MI within specific social, cultural, and historical contexts will be most capable of identifying specific pathways through which multiple elements of MI affect different domains of reproductive and health behavior and outcomes

Affect (linguistics · Biology · China · Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Geography · Obesity · Reproduction · Social environment · Social science · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Waist · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Ecology · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation