Culture, biology, and anthropological demography /:

Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. The first stresses the role of culture in determining population parameters, while the second posits that demographic rates reflect adaptive behavio...

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1. Verfasser: Roth, Eric Abella
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Schriftenreihe:New perspectives on anthropological and social demography.
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Zusammenfassung:Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. The first stresses the role of culture in determining population parameters, while the second posits that demographic rates reflect adaptive behaviors that are the products of natural selection. Both sub-disciplines have achieved notable successes, but each has ignored and been actively disdainful of the other. This text attempts a rapprochement of anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation. Both these approaches are utilized to search for demographic strategies in varied cultural and temporal contexts ranging from African pastoralists through North American post-industrial societies. As such this book is relevant to cultural and biological anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and historians.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-203) and index.
ISBN:0511211538
9780511211539
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9780521809054
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9780521005418
0511216904
9780511216909
0511215118
9780511215117
9780511606793
0511606796
9786610540921
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