{"product_id":"population-reproduction-and-fertility-in-melanesia-9781571816443","title":"Population, Reproduction and Fertility in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHuman 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e“…provides a significant contribution to our knowledge of changes in fertility through its well-described historical and demographic sections, which in anthropological studies of reproduction are usually missing or lacking in depth… [The volume] successfully display[s] the richness of fertility concepts, practices and solutions in the Melanesian area and their relevance for unmasking some of the historical and contemporary myths on kinship demographic changes.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e• Bijdragen. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Population Change, Social Reproduction and Local Understandings of Fertility in Melanesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eStanley J. Ulijaszek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Fertility and the Depopulation of Melanesia: Childlessness, Abortion and Introduced Disease in Simbo and Ontong Java, Solomon Islands\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTim Bayliss-Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Impacts of Colonialism on Health and Fertility: Western New Britain 1884–1940\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eC. Gosden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Purari Population Decline and Resurgence across the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eStanley J. Ulijaszek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Migration and Fertility of a Small Island Population in Manus: a Long-term Analysis of its Sedentes and Migrants\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eYuji Ataka\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRyutaro Ohtsuka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Fertility and Social Reproduction in the Strickland-Bosavi Region\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMonica Minnegal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeter D. Dwyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Emptiness’ and Complementarity in Suau Reproductive Strategies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMelissa Demian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Cognitive Aspects of Fertility and Reproduction in Lak, New Ireland\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSean Kingston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e History Embodied: Authenticating the Past in the New Guinea Highlands\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael O’Hanlon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Variations on a Theme: Fertility, Sexuality and Masculinity in Highland New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePascale Bonnemère\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Fertility among the Anga of Papua New Guinea: a Conspicuous Absence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePierre Lemonnier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041425359191,"sku":"9781571816443","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571816443.jpg?v=1750950226","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/population-reproduction-and-fertility-in-melanesia-9781571816443","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}