Culture, biology, and anthropological demography

Culture, biology, and anthropological demography / Eric Abella Roth.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roth, Eric Abella
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:New perspectives on anthropological and social demography.
Subjects:
Demographic anthropology.
Human ecology.
Human behavior.
Mate selection.
Social ecology.
human ecology.
human behavior.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Demographic anthropology
Human behavior
Human ecology
Mate selection
Social ecology
Demografie.
Sociale ecologie.
Gedrag.
Partnerkeuze.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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