Overview

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.

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Author:   Philip Kreager ,  Astrid Bochow
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   36
ISBN:  

9781785336041

ISBN 10:   1785336045
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Veronique Petit Chapter 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks Index

Reviews

Outstanding. This volume follows in a distinct lineage of both historically and anthropologically-informed critical studies of the demographic analysis of fertility decline and reproductive change. It is an excellent addition to that corpus of work. * Simon Szreter, St John's College

Outstanding. This volume follows in a distinct lineage of both historically and anthropologically-informed critical studies of the demographic analysis of fertility decline and reproductive change. It is an excellent addition to that corpus of work. * Simon Szreter, St John's College, Cambridge

Author Information

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.

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