A "demographic turnaround" - The rapid growth of indigenous populations in lowland Latin America
A "demographic turnaround" - The rapid growth of indigenous populations in lowland Latin America
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DOI：
10.1353/lar.2005.0012
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
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0.8
通讯作者：
Arps, S
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作者：
McSweeney, K;Arps, S
与丰富的学术文献记录了拉丁美洲热带地区原住民在接触后遭受的创伤性破坏相反，人们对他们当代的人口动态知之甚少。是什么原因导致了某些群体报告的“人口转变”？人口恢复的范围有多广，它对土著政治复兴的影响是什么？我们通过汇编100多个低地土著人口的最近（1980年后）人口指标来解决这些问题。尽管这些群体具有显著的社会经济和文化多样性，但我们发现令人信服的证据表明，在过去二十年中，他们仍然有着共同的快速增长轨迹，特别是与非土著人口相比。我们简要回顾了其戏剧性的物理复苏的影响，并显示如何密切关注这一现象是逾期。我们讨论了土著社会的复苏，在卫生和教育，文化和政治收益，人口理论等领域的学术和实践的相关性。
In contrast to the rich scholarship documenting the traumatic postcontact destruction of indigenous populations in the Latin American tropics, little is known about their contemporary population dynamics. What accounts for the "demographic turnaround" reported for some groups? How widespread is population recovery, and what are its implications for indigenous political resurgence? We address these questions by compiling recent (post-1980) demographic indicators for over one hundred lowland indigenous populations. Despite remarkable socioeconomic and cultural diversity among these groups, we find compelling evidence that they nevertheless share a common trajectory of very rapid growth over the past two decades, especially in contrast to non-indigenous populations. We briefly review the implications of their dramatic physical resurgence and show how closer attention to this phenomenon is overdue. We discuss the relevance of indigenous societies' recovery to scholarship and praxis in the areas of health and education, cultural and political gains, and demographic theory.