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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      16 August 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511606793
      9780521809054
      9780521005418
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606793
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.423kg, 232 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 151 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.315kg, 232 Pages
      • Series:
      New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography (3)
      Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Demography, Social Statistics, Anthropology, Sociology
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    Series:
    New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography (3)
    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Demography, Social Statistics, Anthropology, Sociology
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    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.

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    '… Roth's undertaking is to be applauded … Roth draws on an exceptionally wide collection of materials to support his arguments … His first-hand account of how he developed this research focus will be particularly useful for those researchers engaged in or considering such cross-disciplinary work.'

    Source: Population Studies

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