Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography
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Part of New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography
- Author: Eric Abella Roth, University of Victoria, British Columbia
- Date Published: August 2004
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- isbn: 9780521005418
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Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today--anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. Eric Roth reconciles these approaches through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation.
Read more- Suitable for upper-level undergraduate and/or graduate classes in anthropology and demography
- Concise overview of both anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology
- Case studies dealing with diverse topics of interest to both anthropologists and demographers, e.g. , contemporary Chinese family adoption, sexual behavior and HIV/AIDS, cross-cultural patterns of mating and parental investment
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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.' Population Studies
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- Date Published: August 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521005418
- length: 232 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.315kg
- contains: 19 b/w illus. 26 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Anthropological Demography and Human Ecological Behavioural Ecology:
1. Two solitudes
2. Why bother?
3. Anthropological demography: culture, not biology
4. Human evolutionary ecology: biology, not culture
5. Discussion: cultural and biological reductionism
Part II. Reconciling Anthropological Demography and Human Evolutionary Ecology:
6. Common ground
7. Demographic strategies
8. Reproductive interests: social interactions, life effort and demographic strategies: a Rendille example
9. Sepaade as male mating effort
10. Rendille primogeniture as a parenting strategy
11. Summary: demographic strategies as links between culture and biology
Part III. Mating Effort and Demographic Strategies:
12. Mating effort as demographic strategies
13. Cross-cultural mating strategies: polygyny and bridewealth, monogamy and dowry
14. Bridewealth and the matter of choice
15. Demographic and cultural change: values and morals
16. The end of the sepaade tradition: behavioral tracking and moral change
Part IV. Demographic Strategies as Parenting Effort:
17. Parenting effort and the theory of allocation
18. The Trivers-Willard model and parenting strategies
19. Parity-specific parental strategies: the case of primogeniture
20. Local resource competition model
21. Infanticide and child abandonment: accentuating the negative
22. Adoption in modern China: stressing the positive
23. Summary: culture and biology in parental effort
Part V. Future Research Directions:
24. The central place of sex in anthropology and evolution
25. Male sexuality, education and high risk behavior
26. Final ground: demographic transitions
Part VI. References Cited.
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