Dataset "Achuar (Pastaza)"
ID
150
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
Culture
Ethnic or cultural group: |
Achuar (Jivaroan group) |
Atlas code: |
Se3 |
Language group: |
- |
Place
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 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. |
Dataset file
n/a
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 |
% |
Graphics
Gender BIAS (weight)
Gender BIAS (net weight)
Components
Genealogical Completeness
Sibset Distribution
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 |
% |
set blank |
% |
Filled |
% |
Set |
% |
Max. |
CORPUS |
Kinsources_filter |
0 |
0.00 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
1 |
100.00 % |
1 |
100.00 % |
1 |
CORPUS |
Kinsources_filter_count |
0 |
0.00 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
1 |
100.00 % |
1 |
100.00 % |
1 |
CORPUS |
Kinsources permanent link |
0 |
0.00 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
1 |
100.00 % |
1 |
100.00 % |
1 |
INDIVIDUALS |
Add. |
771 |
96.98 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
24 |
3.02 % |
24 |
3.02 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
BIRT_DATE |
764 |
96.10 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
31 |
3.90 % |
31 |
3.90 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
BIRT_PLACE |
779 |
97.99 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
16 |
2.01 % |
16 |
2.01 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
DEAD |
701 |
88.18 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
94 |
11.82 % |
94 |
11.82 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
Dupli |
727 |
91.45 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
68 |
8.55 % |
68 |
8.55 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
ETHNI_FIL |
787 |
98.99 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
8 |
1.01 % |
8 |
1.01 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
Fi / Al |
169 |
21.26 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
626 |
78.74 % |
626 |
78.74 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
OCCU |
794 |
99.87 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
1 |
0.13 % |
1 |
0.13 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
Prim. Ref |
0 |
0.00 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
795 |
100.00 % |
795 |
100.00 % |
795 |
INDIVIDUALS |
RESI |
603 |
75.85 % |
0 |
0.00 % |
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 |