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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alaka Malwade Basu; Peter Aaby; IUSSP Committee on Anthropological Demography. |
| ISBN: | 0198293372 9780198293378 |
| OCLC Number: | 38549907 |
| Notes: | "Outcome of a workshop organized by the Scientific Committee on Anthropological Demography of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population"--Pref. |
| Description: | x, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Approaches to Anthropological Demography / Alaka Malwade Basu and Peter Aaby -- 1. Methodological Advances in Studying the Social Context of AIDS in Africa / John C. Caldwell, I. O. Orubuloye and Pat Caldwell -- 2. Participant Observation in Demographic Research: Fieldwork Experiences in a Ghanaian Community / Sjaak van der Geest -- 3. Using Qualitative Data for Understanding Old-Age Security and Fertility / John Knodel -- 4. Anthropological Insights into the Links between Women's Status and Demographic Behaviour, Illustrated with the Notions of Hypergamy and Territorial Exogamy / Alaka Malwade Basu |
| Series Title: | International studies in demography. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Alaka Malwade Basu, Peter Aaby. |
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Abstract:
A study of the discipline of "anthropological demography", discussing its major methods, main strengths, and chief limitations. It stresses the necessity of a shared agenda and highlights the potential of quantitative and qualitative information in ethnographical and anthropological theories.
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The book is an important contribution to a reconfiguration of demography as a scientific discipline, and the book is an obvious input to university courses within anthropology, sociology and geography on demography and development. Geografisk Tidsskrift The huge expectations for the rest of the book made in the well-written introduction, are followed up by interesting and well-edited contributions . Geografisk Tidsskrift Read more...
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