Infanticide Flashcards
What is infanticide a method of?
Fertility control
What can infanticide control?
Population size
Which Danish explorer wrote about infanticide and when?
Knud Ramussen 1931
What Inuit tribe has been shown to practice infanticide?
The Netsilik
What type of infanticide is often practiced amongst Arctic HG?
Preferential female infanticide.
Why might birth spacing infanticide take place?
So the mother does not have too many children to breast feed or carry at one time
Who wrote about birth spacing infanticide in 1986?
Morales
What percentage of HG allegedly practice birth spacing infanticide?
63%
Who did Jones’s study concentrate on?
The Ju/’hoansi
How far do some HG travel and to forage?
Up to 25km
Why might foraging distance be a consideration for infanticide?
The mother has to carry all equipment and any children under 4
Who developed the idea that women who have children close together are less likely to raise them to a productive age?
Pennington and Traparding 1988
How common is preferential female infanticide and according to whom?
Not very. Kelly 1995.
What does birth spacing infanticide depend on?
How much foraging a child can do.
What did Rasmussen keep and what did this compile?
A diary of every native he met. A census.
