Matthew Lockwood

Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania

Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, C. 1870-1986

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the way in which human reproduction interweaves with the reproduction of society and economy in coastal Tanzania. Combining demography, history, and sociology, and with a breadth of theoretical discussion and empirical detail, it offers a new methodology for the study of African fertility and the role of household demography in agrarian economies. Part I provides a political economy of changing fertility. Demographic patterns are situated within the wider social and economic context, in particular the transformation of marriage in relation to kinship and local political structures, and child-spacing dynamics rooted in the moral exonomy of gender. In Part II, the author examines the implications of demographic patterns for people's work-loads and economic fortunes at the individual and household level. Based on extensive field-work in a Tanzanian village, the analysis shows the importance of women's involvement in rice cultivation, and the fluidity of life cycles.

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Combining demography, history, and sociology, this book offers a new methodology for the study of African fertility and a new definition of the role of household demography in agrarian economies. It provides a useful perspective on the ways in which human reproduction both reflects upon and reacts with the reproduction trends of society and economy in coastal Tanzania. Part I asserts a political economy of changing fertility; Part II studies the implications of demographic patterns for people's work-loads and economic fortunes at the individual and household levels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198287544
• ISBN-10: 0198287542
• Artikelnr.: 20975847

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures. List of Tables. Abbreviations. Introduction. PART I.
Introduction to Part I. 1. The Historical Demography of Coastal
Tanzania. 2. The Proximate Determinants of Fertility. Appendix 2.1:
Calculation of the Bongaarts and Potter Indices. 3. The Historical
Roots of a Fertility Regime. 4. Twentieth-Century Transformations. 5.
Interpretations of Change. PART II. Introduction to Part II. 6.
Labour and Land in Mng'aru. 7. Inequality and Accumulation in
Mng'ary: Norms and Patterns. 9. Household Demography and Patterns of
Work. Conclusion. References. Index.