Situating fertility: anthropology and demographic inquiry

In this collection of essays ten anthropologists and two historians address the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are...

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Weitere Verfasser: Greenhalgh, Susan (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995
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Zusammenfassung:In this collection of essays ten anthropologists and two historians address the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are criticized for neglecting the cultural, social, and political forces that affect reproductive behavior. For their part, anthropologists have only recently begun to apply their characteristic approaches to the study of reproduction. Drawing on new ethnographic and historical research and on a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors to this book indicate some of the ways in which demography might take into account historical processes, political forces, and cultural conceptions
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
ISBN:9780511621611
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511621611

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