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

• Autore: Roth Eric Abella
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 304.6
• Soggetto topico: Demographic anthropology; Human ecology; Human behavior; Mate selection; Social ecology
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Culture, Biology, & Anthropological Demography
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture, biology, and anthropological demography
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784403503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New perspectives on anthropological and social demography ; ; 3.