Gender and risk in a matrifocal Caribbean community: A view from behavioral ecology

American Anthropologist

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 464-479

  Quinlan, Robert J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Ethnography; Evolutionary ecology; Poverty; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746618397     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2006.108.3.464     Document Type: Article

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