About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521469999ISBN:0521469996
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Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U. K.; New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521469999ISBN:0521469996
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. light crease front wrap, free of markings. Unknown printing. (pbk. ) xv, 304 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-294) and index. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521469999ISBN:0521469996
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521470445ISBN:0521470447
Description: BRAND NEW. 25.59 by.87 inches. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing)(324 pages) a collection of essays outlining new anthropological approaches to the issue of fertility. in this collection of essays, which draws on new ethnographic and historical research and a variety of theoretical approaches, ten anthropologists and two historians indicate some of the ways in which demography might take into account historical processes, political forces, and cultural conceptions. ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521470445ISBN:0521470447
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780521469999ISBN:0521469996
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995-07-28
ISBN-13:9780521469999ISBN:0521469996
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