ABSTRACT
This chapter explores predictions regarding trade-offs in juvenile time allocation in response to different ecologies of parental and alloparental investment among the Yora of the Peruvian Amazon. The Yora remained relatively isolated until 1984, when they experienced their first peaceful contacts with outsiders. The Yora are a small group of Panoan-speaking people inhabiting the upper Manu and Mishagua rivers in southeastern Peru, first contacted in 1984. The Yora provide a venue for such study: although they practice horticulture, they depend on subsistence foraging and continue to live in small kin-based groups with little access to Western medicine, contraception, or mechanized technology. The Yora household is assumed to be a primary venue for investment. Although Yora children had ample leisure time and relatively few household responsibilities, they nevertheless spent significant time foraging.
