Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.
- ISBN10 1306690145
- ISBN13 9781306690140
- Publish Date 1 January 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berghahn Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English