Female infanticide, European diseases, and population levels among the Mackenzie Dene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7572224 |
|---|---|
| Authors | JUNE HEL (University of Iowa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-285 |
| Publication date | 1980-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1980.7.2.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2157764645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 32 |
Selective female infanticide by the Dene hunting tribes of Subarctic Canada is noted in the historical and ethnographic record. Unusually extensive and complete census data on two generations of Mackenzie Dene in the infanticide era manifest male-skewed sex ratios that suggest that the number of females in those generations was reduced through infanticide by 20 percent or more. These and later census data falsify the assumption of depopulation of the Mackenzie Dene by exogenous diseases in the historic era, rendering invalid the depopulation theory on which arguments for the “loss” of putative aboriginal unilocal-unilineal organization have been based. Diagrammatic population models are employed to explore the capacity of the population to sustain mortality from introduced diseases when counterbalanced by the elimination of selective female infanticide as a mortality factor. [infanticide, population, hunter-gatherers, subarctic Indians, Northern Athapaskans
Archaeology · Census · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Population · Population decline · Sociology · Subarctic climate · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · History · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
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Addendum
Population History and Population Policies from an Anthropological Perspective
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2013 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |