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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495960803321

Titolo

Reproduction and social organization in Sub-Saharan Africa / / edited by Ron J. Lesthaeghe [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1989

ISBN

0-585-37880-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 556 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Collana

Studies in demography ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

LesthaegheRon J. <1945->

Disciplina

306.8/0967

Soggetti

Families - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Cross-cultural studies

Marriage - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Cross-cultural studies

Human reproduction - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Cross-cultural studies

Fertility, Human - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Cross-cultural studies

Family Planning Services - Africa South of the Sahara

Cross-Cultural Comparison - Africa South of the Sahara

Marriage - Africa South of the Sahara

Reproduction - Africa South of the Sahara

Families - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Marriage - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Human reproduction - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Fertility, Human - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Marital Status

Culture

Reproductive Physiological Phenomena

Community Health Services

Reproductive Health Services

Family Characteristics

Health Services

Sociology

Anthropology, Cultural

Demography

Anthropology

Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services

Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena

Social Sciences

Socioeconomic Factors

Family

Population Characteristics



Psychology, Social

Delivery of Health Care

Phenomena and Processes

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Psychiatry and Psychology

Family Planning Services

Marriage

Cross-Cultural Comparison

Reproduction

Sociology & Social History

Family & Marriage

Cross-cultural studies.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Production and reproduction in sub-Saharan Africa / Ron Lesthaeghe -- The components of sub-Saharan reproductive regimes and their social and cultural determinants / Ron Lesthaeghe and Frank Eelens -- Regional variation in components of child-spacing / Ron Lesthaeghe [and others] -- A comparative study of the levels and the differentials of sterility in Cameroon, Kenya and Sudan / Ulla Larsen -- The demography of polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa / Noreen Goldman and Anne Pebley -- The nuptiality regimes in sub-Saharan Africa / Ron Lesthaeghe, Georgia Kaufmann, and Dominique Meekers -- Polygyny and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa / Anne Pebley and Wariara Mbugua -- Labor circulation, marriage and fertility in southern Africa / Ian Timaeus and Wendy Graham -- Childrearing versus childbearing / Hilary Page -- Strategies of child-fosterage among Mende grannies in Sierra Leone / Caroline Bledsoe and Uche Isiugo-Abanihe -- Social organization, economic crises, and the future of fertility control in Africa / Ron Lesthaeghe.