Indiana Genweb 1850 Grant County Census (reprocessed with sequential housenumbers


householder-spouse 1671
spouse 1671
child 6503
householder-single-female 14
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relatedboarder 701
householder-widow/er 136
householder-single 20
unrelatedboarder 67


Indiana wife: 146
Two birthplaces (non-Indiana wife): 675
One birthplace (non-Indiana wife): 661
Number of first children (Non-Indiana father): 1291
IN 672
posted by Lloyd at 2:57 PM

Results, 1850 Hinds County Genweb census, marriage relationship imputed by age gap and last name, following easterlin rules.

Among Married Hinds household heads:

Mississippi wife: 228
Two birthplaces (non-Mississippi wife): 361
One birthplace (non-Mississippi wife): 296 (33.5 percent)

Total number of first children (Non-Mississippi father): 697
Total first children (Non-Mississippi father) born in MS 496 (71.1 percent of kids)

Household formation was, in other words, strongly neolocal.
posted by Lloyd at 1:42 PM

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Volume 11, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 152-172
Special Issue: Interaction, Social Proximity, and Distance

Social distance, spatial relations, and agricultural production among the Kofyar of Namu district, Plateau State, Nigeria


Glenn Davis Stone

Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
Received 31 January 1992.
Available online 30 August 2004.

Abstract

Physical distance and social distance may be competing factors in movement, but they can be partially reconciled by residing near those who are socially close. The locations of Kofyar frontier settlements are shaped by shared characteristics of kinship and community in their homeland; farmers' village and warfare alliance in the homeland affect choice of area and immediate neighbors on the frontier. Where neighbors are not socially close, settlement encystment occurs. These patterns have economic underpinnings: the complexities of agricultural collaboration strongly favor having socially close neighbors, as reflected in trips among farmsteads for agricultural work.
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