The Structure of an African Pastoralist Community: Demography, History, and Ecology of the Ngamiland Herero
Author:   Renee Pennington (Department of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia) ,  Henry Harpending (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   11
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9780198522867


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   12 August 1993
Format:   Hardback
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The Structure of an African Pastoralist Community: Demography, History, and Ecology of the Ngamiland Herero


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Author:   Renee Pennington (Department of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia) ,  Henry Harpending (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.628kg
ISBN:  

9780198522867


ISBN 10:   019852286
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   12 August 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction and background ; 1. Field-work and methods ; 2. Infant and childhood mortality ; 3. Mortality after early childhood ; 4. Measures of fertility, past and present ; 5. Causes of fertility transition ; 6. Life history and marriage ; 7. Child fosterage and social parenthood ; 8. Herero and Kung comparative demography ; 9. History and population change

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'They have produced what is almost certainly the most innovative and original volume yet to appear. This is a very good book ... a significant methodological contribution to demography and to our interpretation of African population structures. It is not overpriced, as prices go these days, and well worth buying.' George T. Nurse, Annals of Human Biology, 1994, vol. 21, No. 6 This book ... is one that demographers should take seriously. This work provides an exemplary model of how small data sets can be used to construct life tables, and how population pyramids can reveal traces of the effects of history ... there are major methodological and conceptual lessons to be learned from this book, by demographers and anthropologists alike they propose some intriguing reversals of the conventional chains of causality, thereby stimulating us to think radically about classic problems, such as senescence and birth-spacing. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, University of California at Davis, Population Studies, Volumer 49 Part 1 March 1995


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