ISBN:
9780857455581
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 8
DDC:
304.6/0995
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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Demographic anthropology
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Fertility, Human
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Human reproduction
Abstract:
Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780857455581
URL:
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