Kreager / Bochow Fertility, Conjucture, Difference

Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-605-8
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 36, 358 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, family forms, and modern technology to the whole world, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies which employ a 'conjunctural' approach (as an alternative to mainstream demographic models of 'fertility decision-making') and places them in a comparative framework to address how fertility is simply one element of a complex anthropological or compositional demography in which the formation and size of families is not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kreager, Philip

Bochow, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Contributors

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow

Chapter 1. The Key to Fertility: Generation, Reproduction and Class Formation in a Namibian Community

Julia Pauli

Chapter 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900-2000

Sarah Walters

Chapter 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity: The Reproduction of Sub-Groups in the South of Tajikistan

Sophie Roche and Sophie Hohmann

Chapter 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce – Economy, Community and Fertility in Southern Europe

Patrick Heady

Chapter 5. Ambivalent Men: Male Dilemmas and Fertility Control in Senegal

Sara Randall, Nathalie Mondain, and Alioune Diagne

Chapter 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference: Sociality, Temporality and Individuality during Pregnancy in Cameroon

Erica van der Sijpt

Chapter 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana: Reproduction and Tswana-nization of Middle Class Identities in the 21st Century

Astrid Bochow

Chapter 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho

Lena L. Kroeker

Chapter 9. 'The Doctor's Way': Traditional Contraception and Modernity in Cambodia

Eleanor Hukin

AFTERWORD:

Chapter 10. Demographers on Culture: Fertility, Nuptiality, Family Structures

Yves Charbit and Véronique Petit

Chapter 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited

Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kreager, Philip
Philip Kreager is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Department of Sociology, Oxford University.

Bochow, Astrid
Astrid Bochow is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale.