| Description |
xi, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Gavin W. Jones and R. M. Douglas --Pt. I. Fertility Transition. 1. What Do We Now Know about Fertility Transition? / John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell -- Pt. II. Recent Insights into Demographic Transition. 2. The First Health Transition in Australia, 1880-1910 / F. B. Smith. 3. The Demise of Universal Marriage in East and South-East Asia / Gavin W. Jones. 4. An Analysis of Parity-Dependent Fertility Falls in Tropical Africa / William Brass, Fatima Juarez and Anne Scott |
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5. Replacement-Level Fertility: The Implausible Endpoint of the Demographic Transition / Paul Demeny. 6. Intergenerational Wealth Flows and the Elderly in Indonesia / Graeme Hugo -- Pt. III. The Place of Culture in the Explanation of Demographic Transition. 7. The Proper Role of Culture in Demographic Explanation / David I. Kertzer. 8. Gender and Demographic Change: What Do We Know? / Karen Oppenheim Mason |
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9. Marriage Change as Moral Change: Culture, Virtue, and Demographic Transition / Tom Fricke. 10. Orderly Theories, Disorderly Women / Susan Cotts Watkins, Naomi Rutenberg and David Wilkinson. 11. Numerators and Denominators in the Study of High Fertility Populations: Past and Potential Contributions from Cultural Anthropology / Caroline Bledsoe and Fatou Banja Camara. 12. Contraception and Religiosity in Bangladesh / Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond and Fiona Steele. 13. The Rise of Dowry in Bangladesh / Sajeda Amin and Mead Cain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Demographic transition.
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Fertility, Human.
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| Author |
Jones, Gavin W.
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| LC no. |
97026764 |
| ISBN |
0198292570 |
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