Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and…mehr
Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stanley Ulijaszek is a Professor of Human Ecology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. He co-authored Nutritional Anthropology (1993) and wrote Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (1995), and is editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development (1998). He is co-editor of Homo. Journal of Human Comparative Biology and book review editor of the Journal of Biosocial Science.
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List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction: Population Change, Social Reproduction and Local Understandings of Fertility in Melanesia Stanley J. Ulijaszek Chapter 1. Fertility and the Depopulation of Melanesia: Childlessness, Abortion and Introduced Disease in Simbo and Ontong Java, Solomon Islands Tim Bayliss-Smith Chapter 2. The Impacts of Colonialism on Health and Fertility: Western New Britain 1884-1940 C. Gosden Chapter 3. Purari Population Decline and Resurgence across the Twentieth Century Stanley J. Ulijaszek Chapter 4. Migration and Fertility of a Small Island Population in Manus: a Long-term Analysis of its Sedentes and Migrants Yuji Ataka and Ryutaro Ohtsuka Chapter 5. Fertility and Social Reproduction in the Strickland-Bosavi Region Monica Minnegal and Peter D. Dwyer Chapter 6. 'Emptiness' and Complementarity in Suau Reproductive Strategies Melissa Demian Chapter 7. Cognitive Aspects of Fertility and Reproduction in Lak, New Ireland Sean Kingston Chapter 8. History Embodied: Authenticating the Past in the New Guinea Highlands Michael O'Hanlon Chapter 9. Variations on a Theme: Fertility, Sexuality and Masculinity in Highland New Guinea Pascale Bonnemère Chapter 10. Fertility among the Anga of Papua New Guinea: a Conspicuous Absence Pierre Lemonnier Index
List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction: Population Change, Social Reproduction and Local Understandings of Fertility in Melanesia Stanley J. Ulijaszek Chapter 1. Fertility and the Depopulation of Melanesia: Childlessness, Abortion and Introduced Disease in Simbo and Ontong Java, Solomon Islands Tim Bayliss-Smith Chapter 2. The Impacts of Colonialism on Health and Fertility: Western New Britain 1884-1940 C. Gosden Chapter 3. Purari Population Decline and Resurgence across the Twentieth Century Stanley J. Ulijaszek Chapter 4. Migration and Fertility of a Small Island Population in Manus: a Long-term Analysis of its Sedentes and Migrants Yuji Ataka and Ryutaro Ohtsuka Chapter 5. Fertility and Social Reproduction in the Strickland-Bosavi Region Monica Minnegal and Peter D. Dwyer Chapter 6. 'Emptiness' and Complementarity in Suau Reproductive Strategies Melissa Demian Chapter 7. Cognitive Aspects of Fertility and Reproduction in Lak, New Ireland Sean Kingston Chapter 8. History Embodied: Authenticating the Past in the New Guinea Highlands Michael O'Hanlon Chapter 9. Variations on a Theme: Fertility, Sexuality and Masculinity in Highland New Guinea Pascale Bonnemère Chapter 10. Fertility among the Anga of Papua New Guinea: a Conspicuous Absence Pierre Lemonnier Index
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