Situating Fertility - Couverture souple

Greenhalgh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521469996 ISBN 13 : 9780521469999

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"Surely anthropologists interested in diversity and cultural specificty should applaud this demonstration of autonomy and resistance to anthropological hegemony." Susan Cotts Watkins

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521469996
• ISBN 13: 9780521469999
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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