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ISBN 10: 0521809053
ISBN 13: 978-0521809054
Author: Eric Abella Roth
Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today--anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. Eric Roth reconciles these approaches through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation.
1 Anthropological Demography and Human Evolutionary Ecology
Two Solitudes
Why Bother?
Anthropological Demography: Culture, not Biology
Human Behavioral Ecology: Biology, not Culture
Human Behavioral Ecology
Evolutionary Psychology
Dual Inheritance Theory
Discussion: Cultural and Biological Reductionism
2 Reconciling Anthropological Demography and Human Evolutionary Ecology
Common Ground
Demographic Strategies
Reproductive Interests: Social Interactions, Life Effort, and Demographic Strategies: A Rendille Exa
Sepaade as Male Mating Effort
Rendille Primogeniture as a Parenting Strategy
Summary: Demographic Strategies as Links Between Biology and Culture
3 Mating Effort and Demographic Strategies
Mating Effort as Demographic Strategies
Cross-Cultural Mating Strategies: Polygyny and Bridewealth; Monogamy and Dowry
Bridewealth and the Matter of Choice
Reproductive Value
Labor Contributions
Affinal Connections
Demographic and Cultural Change: Values and Morals
The End of the Sepaade Tradition: Behavioral Tracking and Moral Change
4 Demographic Strategies as Parenting Effort
Parenting Effort and the Theory of Allocation
The Trivers–Willard Model and Parenting Strategies
Parity-Specific Parental Strategies: The Case of Primogeniture
Parental Investment: The Local Resource Competition Model
Infanticide and Child Abandonment: Accentuating the Negative
Adoption in Modern China: Stressing the Positive
Summary: Culture and Biology in Inheritance Strategies
5 Future Research Directions
The Centrality of Sex in Anthropology and Evolution
Male Sexuality, Education, and High-Risk Behavior
Final Ground: Demographic Transitions
References Cited
Index
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Tags: Eric Abella Roth, Culture, Biology, Anthropological Demography