Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference

Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-604-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework of compositional demography and conjunctural action.  The volume addresses major issues of inequality and distribution which shape population and social structures, and in which fertility trends and the formation and size of families are not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kreager, Philip

Bochow, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction

Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow

Chapter 1. The Key to Fertility: Generation, Reproduction and Class Formation in a Namibian Community

Julia Pauli

Chapter 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900-2000

Sarah Walters

This chapter is open access under a Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY)

Chapter 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity: The Reproduction of Subgroups in the South of Tajikistan

Sophie Roche and Sophie Hohmann

Chapter 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce: Economy, Community and Fertility in Southern Europe

Patrick Heady

Chapter 5. Ambivalent Men: Male Dilemmas and Fertility Control in Senegal

Sara Randall, Nathalie Mondain, and Alioune Diagne

Chapter 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference: Sociality, Temporality and Individuality during Pregnancy in Cameroon

Erica van der Sijpt

Chapter 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana: Reproduction and Tswana-nization of Middle-Class Identities in the Twenty-First Century

Astrid Bochow

Chapter 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho

Lena L. Kroeker

Chapter 9. ‘The Doctor’s Way’: Traditional Contraception and Modernity in Cambodia

Eleanor Hukin

Chapter 10. Demographers on Culture: Fertility, Nuptiality, Family Structures

Yves Charbit and Véronique Petit

Chapter 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited

Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kreager, Philip
Philip Kreager is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; and Reseach Associate, Department of Sociology, Oxford University. He has written extensively on the history and conceptual development of population theory and analysis in European culture, and on comparative family systems and anthropological demography.

Bochow, Astrid
Astrid Bochow is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Georg August Univeristät Göttingen, and Associate of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University.

Philip Kreager is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; and Reseach Associate, Department of Sociology, Oxford University. He has written extensively on the history and conceptual development of population theory and analysis in European culture, and on comparative family systems and anthropological demography.