ISBN:
9780511621611
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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DDC:
304.6/32
Keywords:
Fertility, Human / Cross-cultural studies
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Human reproduction / Cross-cultural studies
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Demographic anthropology
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Anthropologie
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Fertilität
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Kulturvergleich
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fertilität
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Kulturvergleich
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Fertilität
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Anthropologie
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Anthropology theorizes reproduction: integrating practice, political economic, and feminist perspectives / Susan Greenhalgh -- Political-economic and cultural explanations of demographic behavior / David I. Kertzer -- Agency and fertility: for an ethnography of practice / Anthony T. Carter -- Invisible cultures: poor women's networks and reproductive strategies in nineteenth-century Paris / Rachel G. Fuchs and Leslie Page Moch -- The power of names: illegitimacy in a Muslim community in Côte d'Ivoire / Robert Launay -- Marginal members: children of previous unions in Mende households in Sierra Leone / Caroline Bledsoe -- Women's empowerment and fertility decline in western Kenya / Candice Bradley -- High fertility and poverty in Sicily: beyond the culture vs. rationality debate / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider -- History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya / Tom Fricke -- Economics 1, culture 0: fertility change and differences in the northwest Balkans, 1700-1900 / E.A. Hammel -- Afterword: (Re)capturing reproduction for anthropology
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511621611
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