| Situating Fertility: Anthropology and Demographic Inquiry Contributor(s): Greenhalgh, Susan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521469996 ISBN-13: 9780521469999 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1995 Annotation: This collection addresses 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 304.632 |
| LCCN: 94028528 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.02" W x 8.99" (1.00 lbs) 324 pages |