Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
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Based on papers given at a University of Oxford seminar, these ten articles examine population decline and subsequent resurgence, the ways in which the biological is uncoupled from the social in the context of reproduction, and local understandings of fertility in the Pacific region encompassing New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Ireland, the Van
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…mehr

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Based on papers given at a University of Oxford seminar, these ten articles examine population decline and subsequent resurgence, the ways in which the biological is uncoupled from the social in the context of reproduction, and local understandings of fertility in the Pacific region encompassing New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Ireland, the Van
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.
Autorenporträt
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.