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Culture, biology, and anthropological demography /
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 behavio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | New perspectives on anthropological and social demography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511211538 9780511211539 0521809053 9780521809054 0521005418 9780521005418 0511216904 9780511216909 0511215118 9780511215117 9780511606793 0511606796 9786610540921 6610540926 |