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Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography: 3 (New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography, Series Number 3) - Hardcover

Roth, Eric Abella

 
9780521809054: Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography: 3 (New Perspectives on Anthropological and Social Demography, Series Number 3)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521809053 ISBN 13: 9780521809054
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. The first stresses the role of culture in determining population parameters, while the second posits that demographic rates reflect adaptive behaviors that are the products of natural selection. Both sub-disciplines have achieved notable successes, but each has ignored and been actively disdainful of the other. This text attempts a rapprochement of anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation. Both these approaches are utilized to search for demographic strategies in varied cultural and temporal contexts ranging from African pastoralists through North American post-industrial societies. As such this book is relevant to cultural and biological anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and historians.

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About the Author

Eric Abella Roth is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, and an Affiliate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington-Seattle. He has conducted demographic anthropological fieldwork in the Canadian Subarctic, the Sudan and northern Kenya. He has published in various journals, including American Anthropology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Human Biology, Human Ecology, Journal of Anthropological Research, and Social Sciences and Medicine. He is co-editor of the text, African Pastoralist Systems: An Integrated Approach (1994, Lynne Rienner).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521809053
ISBN 13 
9780521809054
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
232