Lecture notes 3

Gender Demographics

How do gender, sex, reproduction, and sexuality interact with population and evolution issues?

variables: birth rate

- fertility

- mortality

- life expectancy

- developmental sequence for girls/women and boys/men: growth, menarche, puberty, menopause, senescence

dimensions of sexuality:

1) monogamy vs. polygamy

2) definitions of sexuality: desire, behavior, identity

- longitudinal variation

- situational variation

3) sexual orientation and the Kinsey scale

Is the scale of society a critical variable? mode of production? other material conditions?

Food collectors (hunter-gatherers, fishers) (exs. !Kung, Aka, Agta, Inuit, Inupiat, Ju/'hoansi, Montagnais)

Food producers: including mixed economies

Pastoralists (Tuareg, Egyptian Bedouins, Plains Indians, Nuer, Navaho [mixed])

Horticulturalists (Huron, Iroquois, Igbo, Jivaro, Yanomami, Vanatinai, Baule)

Surplus producers:

Peasant farmers (state organization) (Irish, Northern India, Chinantec)

Industrial agriculture (U.S., Caribbean, Brazil)