Aché Life History

Download or read book Aché Life History written by Kim Hill and published by Aldine De Gruyter. This book was released on 1996 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...a magnificent achievement, and a landmark in at least three distinct fields: anthropological demography, human evolutionary ecology, and hunter-gatherer studies...." -- Evolutionary Anthropology The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part exemplary ethnography of the Ache and in larger part uses this population to make a signal contribution to human evolutionary ecology.