Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference : : Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines / / ed. by Philip Kreager, Astrid Bochow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Bochow, Astrid,; Charbit, Yves,; Diagne, Alioune,; Heady, Patrick,; Hohmann, Sophie,; Hukin, Eleanor,; Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer A.,; Kreager, Philip,; Kroeker, Lena L.,; Mondain, Nathalie,; Pauli, Julia,; Petit, Véronique,; Randall, Sara,; Roche, Sophie,; Sijpt, Erica van der,; Walters, Sarah,
• HerausgeberIn: Bochow, Astrid,; Kreager, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. The Key to Fertility --; 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000 --; 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity --; 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce --; 5. Ambivalent Men --; 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference --; 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana --; 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho --; 9. ‘The Doctor’s Way’ --; 10. Demographers on Culture --; 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336058; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336058?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Philip Kreager, Astrid Bochow.

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework of compositional demography and conjunctural action. The volume addresses major issues of inequality and distribution which shape population and social structures, and in which fertility trends and the formation and size of families are not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.