Eurocentric theory (Laslett and Wall) versus Amerindian reality (Nahuas)

• Nahuas had very high mortality: life expectancy at birth less than 20 years.

• Nevertheless, many complex families: 52.3% of rural Nahuas lived as extended kin (compared with less than 20% in Europe--even where extended families were most common).

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