Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-269-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

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

Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ulijaszek, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: Population Change, Social Reproduction and Local Understandings of Fertility in Melanesia

Stanley J. Ulijaszek

Chapter 1. Fertility and the Depopulation of Melanesia: Childlessness, Abortion and Introduced Disease in Simbo and Ontong Java, Solomon Islands

Tim Bayliss-Smith

Chapter 2. The Impacts of Colonialism on Health and Fertility: Western New Britain 1884–1940

C. Gosden

Chapter 3. Purari Population Decline and Resurgence across the Twentieth Century

Stanley J. Ulijaszek

Chapter 4. Migration and Fertility of a Small Island Population in Manus: a Long-term Analysis of its Sedentes and Migrants

Yuji Ataka and Ryutaro Ohtsuka

Chapter 5. Fertility and Social Reproduction in the Strickland-Bosavi Region

Monica Minnegal and Peter D. Dwyer

Chapter 6. ‘Emptiness’ and Complementarity in Suau Reproductive Strategies

Melissa Demian

Chapter 7. Cognitive Aspects of Fertility and Reproduction in Lak, New Ireland

Sean Kingston

Chapter 8. History Embodied: Authenticating the Past in the New Guinea Highlands

Michael O’Hanlon

Chapter 9. Variations on a Theme: Fertility, Sexuality and Masculinity in Highland New Guinea

Pascale Bonnemère

Chapter 10. Fertility among the Anga of Papua New Guinea: a Conspicuous Absence

Pierre Lemonnier

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ulijaszek, Stanley
Stanley Ulijaszek is a Professor of Human Ecology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. He co-authored Nutritional Anthropology (1993) and wrote Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (1995), and is editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development (1998). He is co-editor of Homo. Journal of Human Comparative Biology and book review editor of the Journal of Biosocial Science.

Stanley Ulijaszek is a Professor of Human Ecology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. He co-authored Nutritional Anthropology (1993) and wrote Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (1995), and is editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development (1998). He is co-editor of Homo. Journal of Human Comparative Biology and book review editor of the Journal of Biosocial Science.