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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Anthropological Demography and Human Ecological Behavioural Ecology:
- 1. Two solitudes
- 2. Why bother?
- 3. Anthropological demography: culture, not biology
- 4. Human evolutionary ecology: biology, not culture
- 5. Discussion: cultural and biological reductionism
- Part II. Reconciling Anthropological Demography and Human Evolutionary Ecology:
- 6. Common ground
- 7. Demographic strategies
- 8. Reproductive interests: social interactions, life effort and demographic strategies: a Rendille example
- 9. Sepaade as male mating effort
- 10. Rendille primogeniture as a parenting strategy
- 11. Summary: demographic strategies as links between culture and biology
- Part III. Mating Effort and Demographic Strategies:
- 12. Mating effort as demographic strategies
- 13. Cross-cultural mating strategies: polygyny and bridewealth, monogamy and dowry
- 14. Bridewealth and the matter of choice
- 15. Demographic and cultural change: values and morals
- 16. The end of the sepaade tradition: behavioral tracking and moral change
- Part IV. Demographic Strategies as Parenting Effort:
- 17. Parenting effort and the theory of allocation
- 18. The Trivers-Willard model and parenting strategies
- 19. Parity-specific parental strategies: the case of primogeniture
- 20. Local resource competition model
- 21. Infanticide and child abandonment: accentuating the negative
- 22. Adoption in modern China: stressing the positive
- 23. Summary: culture and biology in parental effort
- Part V. Future Research Directions:
- 24. The central place of sex in anthropology and evolution
- 25. Male sexuality, education and high risk behavior
- 26. Final ground: demographic transitions
- Part VI. References Cited.