Demographic patterns of sedentary and nomadic Juang of Orissa
Roth, E.A.; Ray, A.K.
Human Biology 57(3): 319-325
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0018-7143 PMID: 4077038 DOI: 10.2307/41463662Document Number: 421132
Despite recent research into the demographic concomitants of sedentism, little data of this nature is available for South Asia. This paper examined genealogical data from 23 Juang tribal villages in central Orissa, India, to determine patterns of demographic change arising fron incipient sedentism. Maternal history analysis by indirect estimation techniques revealed higher fertility, but approximately equivalent mortality, levels for sedentary groups relative to nomadic counterparts. This confirms previous research noting increased fertility with the advent of settlement, but goes against earlier findings of decreased mortality pressures with sedentism.