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oapen-20.500.12657-283552024-03-23T11:29:43Z Chapter 2 Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000 Walters, Sarah Demography history Africa thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology 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, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework of compositional demography and conjunctural action. The volume addresses major issues of inequality and distribution which shape population and social structures, and in which fertility trends and the formation and size of families are not decided solely or primarily by reproduction. In this chapter, I address these questions in relation to the Counting Souls Project1 through two frameworks described by Kreager and Bochow in the introduction to this volume. 2018-10-02 23:55 2019-04-30 13:49:16 2020-04-01T12:21:31Z 2020-04-01T12:21:31Z 2017 chapter 1001602 OCN: 1029857921 9781785336041 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28355 eng application/pdf n/a ch2.pdf Berghahn Books Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference 10.2307/j.ctvw04c56 10.2307/j.ctvw04c56 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 9712c84f-9813-47d1-a252-630b2705fe77 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781785336041 Wellcome 29 USA/UK WT095724/Z/11/Z Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework of compositional demography and conjunctural action. The volume addresses major issues of inequality and distribution which shape population and social structures, and in which fertility trends and the formation and size of families are not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.
In this chapter, I address these questions in relation to the
Counting Souls Project1 through two frameworks described by
Kreager and Bochow in the introduction to this volume.
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