Dataset "Achuar (Pastaza)" ID 150

Author: Philippe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor	Publication date: 29/01/2016
Status:	License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Short description: This data-set presents a genealogy of the Achuar speaking population of the Pastaza river and its tributaries (Ecuador, closed to Peru). It concerns the period between October 1976 and March 1979.

General

Name:	Achuar (Pastaza)
Simplified name:	achuar_pastaza
Author:	Philippe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor
Coder:	Gregory Deshoulliere and Vincent Hirtzel
Contributor:	Philippe Descola
Contact:	descola@ehess.fr
Creation date:	27/03/2015
Edition date:	27/03/2015

Culture

Ethnic or cultural group:	Achuar (Jivaroan group)
Atlas code:	Se3
Language group:	-

Place

Location:	Pastaza river area (Amazonian Ecuador)
Country:	Ecuador
Region:	South America
Continent:	America
Coordinate:	-
Radius from center (km):	-

Time

Period covered by the dataset:	October 1976 to March 1979
Period of data collection:	-
Period note:	Tensions between Peru and Ecuador in the frontiere

Data publication

Permanent link:	https://www.kinsources.net/kidarep/dataset-150-achuar-pastaza.xhtml
Conditions of use:	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Other repositories:	-
Dataset history:	-
Citation:	Philippe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor, Achuar (Pastaza), 2014, https://www.kinsources.net/kidarep/dataset-150-achuar.xhtml
How to cite:	Philippe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor (2016), Achuar (Pastaza) dataset, https://www.kinsources.net/kidarep/dataset-150-achuar-pastaza.xhtml

Data collection

Collection notes (circumstances, sources, methods, funding, coverage…):	From original notebooks of the authors.
Reference:	-
Bibliography:	- Philippe Descola, 1982. Territorial adjustments among the Achuar of Ecuador. Social Science Information, 21(2), 301–320 - Anne-Christine Taylor, 1983. The Marriage Alliance and Its Structural Variations in Jivaroan Societies. Social Science Information 22 (3): 331-353 - Philippe Descola, 1986. La Nature domestique : symbolisme et praxis dans l’écologie des Achuar, Paris, Fondation Singer-Polignac et Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (English translation: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994) - Philippe Descola, 1993. Les Affinités sélectives Alliance, guerre et prédation dans l’ensemble jivaro. L’Homme, 33(126), 171–190 - Anne-Christine Taylor, 1993. Remembering to forget: identity, mourning and memory among the Jivaro. Man, 28(4), 653–678 - Philippe Descola, 1996. The spears of twilight: life and death in the Amazon jungle. Janet Lloyd (trans.). New York: New Press - Anne-Christine Taylor, 1998. Jivaro Kinship: “Simple” and “Complex” Formulas: A Dravidian Transformation Group. In Transformations of Kinship, edited by Maurice Godelier, Thomas R.Trautmann, and Franklin E. Tjon Sie Fat. Pp. 187-213. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press - Anne-Christine Taylor, 2000. Le sexe de la proie. Représentations jivaro du lien de parenté. L’Homme 154-155:309-334. (Special issue: Question de Parenté) - Anne-Christine Taylor, 2001. Wives pets and affines. Marriage among the Jivaro. In L. Rival & N. L. Whitehead (Eds.), Beyond the visible and the material: the amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière. Pp. 45–56. Oxford: Oxford University Press - Anne-Christine Taylor, 2006. Devenir jivaro. Le statut de l’homicide guerrier en Amazonie. Cahiers d’anthropologie Sociale, Paris, Pp. 67–84. Éditions de l'Herne

Description

Description:	Collected during long-term fieldwork by Philippe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor and built from their fieldwork notes, this data-set concerns principally the Achuar speaking population from Pastaza area of Ecuador (Capahuari or Kapawi river, Ishpinku river, Copataza or Kupats river, Bobonaza or Pupunats River, Sasaïme river and Conambo or Kunampentsa river, Upper Tigre). The non-anonymized data-set contains original names and some information regarding the place of residence and age. A future version including some revision/corrections will be upload in kinsources.

Description:

Collected during long-term fieldwork by Philippe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor and built from their fieldwork notes, this data-set concerns principally the Achuar speaking population from Pastaza area of Ecuador (Capahuari or Kapawi river, Ishpinku river, Copataza or Kupats river, Bobonaza or Pupunats River, Sasaïme river and Conambo or Kunampentsa river, Upper Tigre). The non-anonymized data-set contains original names and some information regarding the place of residence and age. A future version including some revision/corrections will be upload in kinsources.

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Individuals	795		Unions	345		Relations	0		Generations	5

Statistics

Individuals	795
Men	387	48.68	%
Women	408	51.32	%
Unknown	0	0.0	%
Non single men	227
Non single women	292
Mean spouse of men	1.55
Mean spouse of women	1.18
Co-husband_relations	57
Co-wife_relations	223

Unions	345
Marriages	343
Marriages density		5.43	%
Fertile marriages	179	52.19	%
Parent child ties	1044
Filiation density		16.54	%
First cousin marriages	9	2.62	%
Cross (first) cousin marriages	9	2.62	%
Parallel (first) cousin marriages	0	0.0	%
Niece/Nephew marriages	1	0.29	%
Levirate marriages	30	8.75	%
Sororate marriages	41	11.95	%
Double or exchange marriages	13	3.79	%
Double marriages	7	2.04	%
Exchange marriages	6	1.75	%
Mean children per fertile couple	2.78

Depth	5
Depth mean	1.49
Agnatic fratry size mean	3.65
Uterine fratry size mean	3.15

Components	4
Mean components share (agnatic)	0.37	%
without singleton	1.6	%
Mean components share (uterine)	0.36	%
without singleton	1.1	%
Max components (agnatic)	5.28	%
Max components (uterine)	4.03	%

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Gender BIAS (net weight)

Components

Genealogical Completeness

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First Cousin Marriages

Ancestor Chains (degree=3)

Consanguines per person

Genders

PEDG 2

PEDG 3

Union Status

Attributes

Scope	Count	Labels
Corpus	3	Kinsources_filter, Kinsources_filter_count, Kinsources permanent link
Individuals	10	Add., BIRT_DATE, BIRT_PLACE, DEAD, Dupli, ETHNI_FIL, Fi / Al, OCCU, Prim. Ref, RESI

Scope	Label	Not set	%	Filled	%	Set	%	Max.
CORPUS	Kinsources_filter	0	0.00 %	1	100.00 %	1	100.00 %	1
CORPUS	Kinsources_filter_count	0	0.00 %	1	100.00 %	1	100.00 %	1
CORPUS	Kinsources permanent link	0	0.00 %	1	100.00 %	1	100.00 %	1
INDIVIDUALS	Add.	771	96.98 %	24	3.02 %	24	3.02 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	BIRT_DATE	764	96.10 %	31	3.90 %	31	3.90 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	BIRT_PLACE	779	97.99 %	16	2.01 %	16	2.01 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	DEAD	701	88.18 %	94	11.82 %	94	11.82 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	Dupli	727	91.45 %	68	8.55 %	68	8.55 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	ETHNI_FIL	787	98.99 %	8	1.01 %	8	1.01 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	Fi / Al	169	21.26 %	626	78.74 %	626	78.74 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	OCCU	794	99.87 %	1	0.13 %	1	0.13 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	Prim. Ref	0	0.00 %	795	100.00 %	795	100.00 %	795
INDIVIDUALS	RESI	603	75.85 %	192	24.15 %	192	24.15 %	795

Controls

Control type	Anomaly count
AUTO_MARRIAGE	0
CYCLIC_DESCENT_CASES	0
FEMALE_FATHERS_OR_MALE_MOTHERS	0
MULTIPLE_FATHERS_OR_MOTHERS	0
PARENT_CHILD_MARRIAGES	0
SAME_SEX_SPOUSES	0
NAMELESS_PERSONS	0
UNKNOWN_SEX_PERSONS	0
UNKNOWN_SEX_PARENTS_SPOUSES	0
UNKNOWN_RELATIVES	0
INCONSISTENT_DATES	0
MISSING_DATES	1746
MISSING_DATES_COMPACT	1746