title: Microdemographic Determinants of Population Recovery among the Northern Aché.
abstract: A pattern of population crash and rapid recovery is a common feature of the pacification and settlement experience of the indigenous peoples of tropical South America. Despite the obvious importance of these events to the demographic and anthropological sciences as a whole, as well as their significant practical implications, little is known about the microdemographic determinants of these paired phenomena. Using methods of asymptotic and stochastic demographic analysis, we reconstructed the microdemographic drivers of this history among one indigenous population: the Northern Aché of eastern Paraguay. This article explores the implications of these relationships for understanding the overall demographic turnaround observed within similar groups, as well as for the future trajectory of the Northern Aché in particular.
authors.affiliation: 1 Geospatial and Population Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
authors.forename: Jack D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.affiliation: 2 School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: 2 School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
authors.forename: A Magdalena
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hurtado
authors.affiliation: 1 Geospatial and Population Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
authors.forename: Adelamar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alcantara
authors.affiliation: 3 Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section, Juneau, AK.
authors.forename: Eddie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hunsinger
authors.affiliation: 4 Washington Office of Financial Management, Forecasting Division, Olympia, WA.
authors.forename: Webb
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sprague
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American / Q000266:history*; D010239:Paraguay / Q000208:ethnology; D011157:Population Dynamics / Q000266:history; D011158:Population Growth
keywords: ACHE; AMAZONIA; DEMOGRAPHIC TURNAROUND; INDIGENOUS; POPULATION RECOVERY