Fertility, conjuncture, and difference : anthropological approaches to the heterogeneity of modern fertility declines

Fertility, conjuncture, and difference anthropological approaches to the heterogeneity of modern fertility declines

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductiv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Walters, Sarah (auth), Kreager, Philip, editor (editor), Bochow, Astrid, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: USA/UK Berghahn Books 2017
New York : 2017.
Colección:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 36.
Materias:
Fertility, Human > Cross-cultural studies.
Human reproduction > Cross-cultural studies.
Demographic anthropology > Case studies.
Demography
history
Africa
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009622140706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Key to Fertility
  • 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000
  • 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity
  • 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce
  • 5. Ambivalent Men
  • 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference
  • 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana
  • 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho
  • 9. ‘The Doctor’s Way’
  • 10. Demographers on Culture
  • 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited
  • Index

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