James W. Wood (Pennsylvania State University)

Gebundenes Buch

The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming

Population, Food and Family

Beschreibung

An interdisciplinary perspective on preindustrial agriculture that combines insights from ecology and demography, this book explores the strengths and limitations of traditional farming. A valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in biological, physical and cultural anthropology, natural resource management, agriculture and ecology.

Autor

James W. Wood is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University and a Senior Scientist in Penn State's Graduate Program on Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment, USA. His previous book, The Dynamics of Human Reproduction: Biology, Biometry, Demography (1994) won the 1995 W. W. Howells Prize for best book in biological anthropology awarded by the American Anthropological Association. He conducted several years' worth of fieldwork on the demography and ecology of subsistence farming in highland New Guinea and in the northern Orkney Islands of Scotland, and retired in 2017.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 254mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1144g
• ISBN-13: 9781107033412
• ISBN-10: 1107033411
• Artikelnr.: 57826084