SITUATING FERTILITY by Susan Greenhalgh (Editor) ( 9780521470445 )

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SITUATING FERTILITY
ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHIC INQUIRY

By:

Susan Greenhalgh (Editor)

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0521470447

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 July, 1995

Pages:

324

Description:

A collection of essays outlining new anthropological approaches to the issue of fertility.

Synopsis:

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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