Balancing on a planet: the future of food and agriculture
In: California studies in food and culture 46
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In: California studies in food and culture 46
In: Balancing on a Planet, S. 160-182
In: Balancing on a Planet, S. 71-96
In: Balancing on a Planet, S. 97-122
In: International affairs, Band 85, Heft 3, S. 634-635
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 13-29
In: American Indian culture and research journal, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 13-29
ISSN: 0161-6463
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 91, Heft 2, S. 401-413
ISSN: 1548-1433
African population structures based on censuses exhibit a distinctive pattern of distortion. It is often assumed that the cause for this distortion is systematic biases in age estimates by census enumerators and respondents influenced by perceptions of social and biological development. African developmental stage age groups are the cultural codification of such perceptions. I describe developmental stage age groups among the Kusasi of Bawku District in northeast Ghana, and analyze their age and sex structure for a sample of 1,132 individuals from the village of Zorse. I show that differences between men and women reflect differences in biological and social development, and that cultural concepts of developmental stages could influence age estimates to produce the pattern of distortions typical of those found in African population structures based on censuses. This is supported by a comparison of Bawku District population structure based on the Ghana census and an ethnographic sample census in Zorse which eliminated most age estimate biases.