Both disciplines, after all, have a common intense interest in the kind of life and death issues that they can fruitfully explore together or by using one another's research methods. This volume takes stock of the current status of the comparatively new discipline of "Anthropological Demography," and discusses its major methods, its main strengths, and its chief limitations. It includes contributions from both mainstream demographers and foremost anthropologists, all stressing the necessity of a shared agenda for each discipline to progress successfully and avoid marginalization.
Both disciplines, after all, have a common intense interest in the kind of life and death issues that they can fruitfully explore together or by using one another's research methods.This volume takes stock of the current status of the comparatively new discipline of "Anthropological Demography," and discusses its major methods, its main strengths, and its chief limitations. It includes contributions from both mainstream demographers and foremost anthropologists, all stressing the necessity of a shared agenda for each discipline to progress successfully and avoid marginalization.
Alaka Basu is Senior Research Associate in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. She has previously held positions at the University of Bombay; The Population Foundation of India; the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi; and the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. Peter Aaby is Research Professor in Health Conditions in Developing Countries in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Copenhagen. He also works as Senior Researcher and Project leader of the Community Studies of Infectious Diseases and Primary Health Care in Guinea-Bisseau.
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* Introduction: Approaches to Anthropological Demography * 1: John C. Caldwell, I. O. Orubuloye, and Pat Caldwell: Methodological Advances in Studying the Social Context of AIDS in Africa * 2: Sjaak van der Geest: Participant Observation in Demographic Research: Fieldwork Experiences in a Ghanaian Community * 3: John Knodel: Using Qualitative Data for Understanding Old-Age Security and Fertility * 4: Alaka Basu: Anthropological Insights into the Links between Women's Status and Demographic Behaviour, Illustrated with the Notions of Hypergamy and Territorial Exogamy * 5: Georgia Kaufmann: Kinship Structures, Marriage Systems, and Reproductive Behaviour: The Use of Anthropology and Demography in a Brazilian Case Study * 6: John Cleland and Georgia Kaufmann: Education, Fertility, and Child Survival: Unravelling the Links * 7: Sukumari Bhattacharji: A Rereading of Historical Material: An Alternative Account of the Position of Women in Ancient India * 8: Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider: Political Economy and Cultural Processes in the Fertility Decline of Sicilian Artisans * 9: John Kwasi Anarfi: Anthropological Perspectives on Migration in Africa * 10: Peter Aaby: Are Men Weaker or Do their Sisters Talk Too Much? Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality and the Construction of `Biological' Differences * 11: Alaka Basu: Cultural Models and Demographic Behaviour * 12: Caroline Bledsoe and Allan Hill: Social Norms, Natural Fertility, and the Resumption of Postpartum `Contact' in The Gambia * 13: Philip Kreager: The Limits of Diffusionism
* Introduction: Approaches to Anthropological Demography * 1: John C. Caldwell, I. O. Orubuloye, and Pat Caldwell: Methodological Advances in Studying the Social Context of AIDS in Africa * 2: Sjaak van der Geest: Participant Observation in Demographic Research: Fieldwork Experiences in a Ghanaian Community * 3: John Knodel: Using Qualitative Data for Understanding Old-Age Security and Fertility * 4: Alaka Basu: Anthropological Insights into the Links between Women's Status and Demographic Behaviour, Illustrated with the Notions of Hypergamy and Territorial Exogamy * 5: Georgia Kaufmann: Kinship Structures, Marriage Systems, and Reproductive Behaviour: The Use of Anthropology and Demography in a Brazilian Case Study * 6: John Cleland and Georgia Kaufmann: Education, Fertility, and Child Survival: Unravelling the Links * 7: Sukumari Bhattacharji: A Rereading of Historical Material: An Alternative Account of the Position of Women in Ancient India * 8: Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider: Political Economy and Cultural Processes in the Fertility Decline of Sicilian Artisans * 9: John Kwasi Anarfi: Anthropological Perspectives on Migration in Africa * 10: Peter Aaby: Are Men Weaker or Do their Sisters Talk Too Much? Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality and the Construction of `Biological' Differences * 11: Alaka Basu: Cultural Models and Demographic Behaviour * 12: Caroline Bledsoe and Allan Hill: Social Norms, Natural Fertility, and the Resumption of Postpartum `Contact' in The Gambia * 13: Philip Kreager: The Limits of Diffusionism
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