The continuing demographic transition /
by Jones, G. W. (Gawin W.).
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997Description: xi, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0198292570.Subject(s): Demographic transition | Fertility, Human| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 304.61 ACT Active ageing and demographic change : | 304.61 AHB Biological perspectives of high population density / | 304.61 COH How many people can the earth support? / | 304.62 CON The continuing demographic transition / | 304.62 POP Population change and the economy : | 304.62 POP Population change and the economy : | 304.62 POP Population change and the economy : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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.
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