Population and social organization
1975, 1st edition. The Hague : Mouton. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391333
ISBN: 9027975892
Series: World Anthropology. Physical description: 355 pages, 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Marriage and kinship in relation to human fertility / Moni Nag -- Age differential, marital instability, and venereal disease : factors affecting fertility among the Northwest Barma / S.P. Reyna -- Cultural factors inhibiting population growth among the Kafa of southwestern Ethiopia / Amnon Orent -- Some aspects of socioeconomic change and fertility control among the emerging elite of the Pathans / Karam Elahi -- The economic importance of children in a Javanese village / Benjamin White -- Factors underlying endogamous group size / John W. Adams and Alice Bee Kasakoff -- Birth planning : between neglect and coercion / Steven Polgar -- Legislation influencing fertility in Czeckoslovakia / Olga Vidláková -- The marginal family in Chile : social change and woman's contraceptive behavior / Gerardo Gonzáles-Cortés and Margarita María Errázuriz -- Kinship, contraception, and family planning in the Iranian city of Isfahan / John Gulick and Margaret E. Gulick -- Mass acceptance of vasectomy : the role of social interaction and incentives in social change / D.C. Dubey and A. Bardhan -- Families to the city : a study of changing values, fertility, and socioeconomic status among urban in-migrants / Susan C. Scrimshaw -- Residential patterns and population movement into the farmlands of Yorubaland / Philip O. Olusanya. Subjects: Population; Families; Birth control; Population Control.
Price: €35.00