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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 December 2009
      13 July 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511621611
      9780521470445
      9780521469999
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621611
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.563kg, 324 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.564kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Demography, Social Statistics, Anthropology, Sociology, Anthropological Theory
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    Demography, Social Statistics, Anthropology, Sociology, Anthropological Theory
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    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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    "Surely anthropologists interested in diversity and cultural specificty should applaud this demonstration of autonomy and resistance to anthropological hegemony." Susan Cotts Watkins

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