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Author : David I. Kertzer,Thomas Earl Fricke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226431963
Revised papers originally presented at the Brown University Conference on Anthropological Demography, Nov 3-5, 1994.
Author : Alaka Malwade Basu,Peter Aaby
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191584466
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. While the unique research and personal satisfaction afforded by `participant observation' is described, the book also highlights the potential contribution to the understanding of demographic events of much more than the field methods of traditional anthropology. In particular, it stresses the insights possible from qualitative focus group interviews, from longitudinal studies and from a greater interest in `armchair' anthropology, in which demographers complement their quantitative findings with qualitative information and understanding gleaned from a careful reading of the anthropological literature, in the form of both ethnographies and anthropological theories. In addition, it stresses the larger world of the ideal anthropological demographer: a world that includes the cultural context of course, but also takes into account the historical and political forces that condition so much individual behaviour. But the book is also a critical venture. It includes therefore considerable discussion of the common limits of the purely anthropological approach for understanding demographic events and processes, especially from a larger policy perspective, at the same time as it emphasizes the crucial role of the anthropological approach to designing policy that is potentially effective as well as socially and culturally sensitive. It reiterates the often complementary role of anthropological demography and also discusses some specific questions in demographic research which it does not as yet seem to have the capacity to illuminate. The book is aimed primarily at demographers wishing to broaden their research agenda and deepen their understanding of demographic behaviour, but it also hopes to convert mainstream anthropologists to take a more active interest in demographic issues. 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.
Author : Alan C. Swedlund,George J. Armelagos
Publisher : Dubuque, Iowa : W. C. Brown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036664980
Author : Simon Szreter,Hania Sholkamy,A. Dharmalingam
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191533693
Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories in two ways. First, it examines the historical and political circumstances in which such categories had their provenance, and, second, it reassesses their uncritical applications over space and time in a diverse range of empirical case studies, encouraging throughout a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue involving anthropologists, demographers, historians, and sociologists. This volume seeks to examine the political complexities that lie at the heart of population studies by focusing on category formation, category use, and category critique. It shows that this takes the form of a dialectic between the needs for clarity of scientific and administrative analysis and the recalcitrant diversity of the social contexts and human processes that generate population change. The critical reflections of each chapter are enriched by meticulous ethnographic fieldwork and historical research drawn from every continent. This volume, therefore, exemplifies a new methodology for research in population studies, one that does not simply accept and re-use the established categories of population science but seeks critically and reflexively to explore, test, and re-evaluate their meanings in diverse contexts. It shows that for demography to realise its full potential it must urgently re-examine and contextualize the social categories used today in population research.
Author : Eric Abella Roth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521005418
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Author : W. Penn Handwerker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429712128
This book originated in a conference on Culture and Reproduction held at the University of California. It discusses conceptual changes in demographic theory, focuses on micro-level issues, and explores linkages between micro-level processes and the macro-level constraints that shape those processes. World population growth, especially its fertility component, poses a major dilemma for policymakers throughout the world. However, theoretical developments in demography have not yet provided a solid foundation for understanding contemporary population processes. From an anthropological perspective, the current micro-level models do not properly recognize the cultural and biological constraints within which people make reproductive decisions. On the macro level, demographic transition continues to be linked to processes of "modernization." Arguing that it is necessary to readdress micro-level issues in light of the cultural-historical variability of particular places and times and to explore linkages between macro- and micro-level phenomena through which population processes work themselves out, the contributors point the way to new theoretical formulations of the concept of culture, the nature of macro/micro linkages, and methods of placing demographic theory within the more encompassing framework of evolutionary theory.
Author : School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Publisher : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004113430
Author : Ezra B. W. Zubrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476387799
Author : Kenneth M. Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39076005191452
Author : Susan Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521470447
This collection addresses 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.
Author : Véronique Petit,Kaveri Qureshi,Yves Charbit,Philip Kreager
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192607324
The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing. By observing group formation and change over time, tracking people's networks, and observing variance between what people say and do, anthropological demography goes beyond the characteristically top-down formal methodologies of most mainstream socio-economic demography and population health. This path-breaking volume charts and integrates the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health. It offers a clear agenda based on important conceptual and methodological advances, and often working in close collaboration with medical and historical research. Approaches to population that are grounded in sustained ethnographic and historical research provide more than substantive knowledge of how cultural and social formations interact with health. They enable understanding of how local institutions and experience of vital events come to be translated into the demographic and health measures on which survey and clinical programmes rely. This, in turn, makes possible critical evaluation of the empirical adequacy of such translation, reflection on what happens when these models and measures become standardised evaluations of health statuses, and what this implies for governance. The combination of anthropological, demographic, historical, and biological research has gone beyond the initial demographic prioritisation of fertility regulation, to take on an expanded range of key health policy issues, and locate them in the context of the inequalities that so frequently give rise to major health differentials. The Anthropological Demography of Health offers a clear agenda for the application and extension of combined anthropological and demographic thinking in population health, and will provide a point of reference for the field.
Author : Per Axelsson,Peter Sköld
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450036
When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people. In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Australia. Using historical and demographical evidence, the contributors explore the creation and validity of categories for enumerating indigenous populations, the use and misuse of ethnic markers, micro-demographic investigations, and demographic databases, and thereby show how the situation varies substantially between countries.
Author : Véronique Petit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400750463
The core aim of this book is to determine how anthropology and demography can be used in conjunction in the field of population and development. The boundaries of demography are not as clearly defined or as stable as one might think, especially in view of the tension between a formal demography centered on the ‘core of procedures and references’ and a more open form of demography, generally referred to as Population Studies. Many rapprochements, missed opportunities and isolated attempts marked the disciplinary history of anthropology and demography, both disciplines being founded on distinct and highly differentiated traditions and practices. Moreover, the role and the place assigned to epistemology differ significantly in ethnology and demography. Yet, anthropology and demography provide complementary models and research instruments and this book shows that neither discipline can afford to overlook their respective contributions. Based on research conducted in West Africa over more than twenty years, it is a defense of field demography that makes case for a continuum ranging from the initial conception of fieldwork and research to its effective implementation and to data analysis. Changes in behaviors relating to fertility, poverty or migration cannot be interpreted without invoking the cultural factor at some stage. Representations in their collective and individual dimensions also fit into the extended explanatory space of demography.
Author : John Caldwell,Allan Hill,Valerie J. Hull
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000929140
Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. The essays bridge the gap in the conceptualisation and organisation of field research by 2 sets of social scientists – demographers and social anthropologists – who share an interest in the explanation of particular patterns of population composition and change.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anthropological Survey of India
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042707284
Seminar papers.
