Household task delegation among high- fertility forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia

Current Anthropology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 232-241

  Stieglitz, Jonathan ^a   Gurven, Michael ^b   Kaplan, Hillard ^a   Hooper, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84875791699     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669708     Document Type: Article

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