Record Nr.

UNINA9910457742203321

Autore

Roth Eric Abella

Titolo

Culture, biology, and anthropological demography/ / Eric Abella Roth [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN


1-107-14410-8
1-280-54092-3
0-511-21511-8
0-511-21690-4
0-511-21153-8
0-511-31558-9
0-511-60679-6
0-511-21330-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New perspectives on anthropological and social demography ; ; 3

Disciplina

304.6

Soggetti

Demographic anthropology

Human ecology

Human behavior

Mate selection

Social ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Anthropological Demography and Human Evolutionary Ecology; 2 Reconciling Anthropological Demography and Human Evolutionary Ecology; 3 Mating Effort and Demographic Strategies; 4 Demographic Strategies as Parenting Effort; 5 Future Research Directions; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 behaviors that are the products of

natural selection. Both sub-disciplines have achieved notable successes, but each has ignored and been actively disdainful of the other. This text attempts a rapprochement of anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation. Both these approaches are utilized to search for demographic strategies in varied cultural and temporal contexts ranging from African pastoralists through North American post-industrial societies. As such this book is relevant to cultural and biological anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and historians.