ISBN: 9780226431956

Although in its early years anthropology often used demographic research and showed interest in demographic issues, anthropology and demography have more recently grown to distrust each o… More...

Although in its early years anthropology often used demographic research and showed interest in demographic issues, anthropology and demography have more recently grown to distrust each other's guiding assumptions and methods. Demographers have stressed universal causal models and standardized survey methods, while sociocultural anthropologists have increasingly focused on the uniqueness of different peoples and their cultures. Showing that the two disciplines have much to offer each other, this book bridges the demography/anthropology divide. The editors begin the volume with an in-depth historical account of the relations between the fields. Eminent contributors from both disciplines then examine the major issues and controversies in anthropological demography, including the demographic implications of differing family and kinship systems; the influence of new developments in cultural, gender, and identity theory on population study; the limits of quantitative approaches in demographic study; and demographers' views of the limits of anthropological methods. Trade Books>Hardcover>Social Sciences>Anthropology>Anthropology, University of Chicago Press Core >2<

ISBN: 9780226431956

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], In the past anthropology often used demographic research, but the two disciplines have recently grown to distrust each other's assumptions… More...

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], In the past anthropology often used demographic research, but the two disciplines have recently grown to distrust each other's assumptions and methods. In order to show that they have much to offer each other, this book seeks to bridge the demography/anthropology divide, and examines major issues., Population & Demography, Anthropology<

1997, ISBN: 9780226431956

Toward a New Synthesis, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University of Chicago Press], University of Chicago Press, 1997

1997, ISBN: 9780226431956

Toward a New Synthesis, [ED: 2], 2nd ed., Hardcover, Buch, [PU: University of Chicago Press]

1997, ISBN: 9780226431956

Toward a New Synthesis, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: University of Chicago Press]