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.
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Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
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Table of contents
- POPULATION, REPRODUCTION AND FERTILITY IN MELANESIA
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. FERTILITY AND THE DEPOPULATION OF MELANESIA
- CHAPTER 2. THE IMPACTS OF COLONIALISM ON HEALTH AND FERTILITY
- CHAPTER 3. PURARI POPULATION DECLINE AND RESURGENCE ACROSS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- CHAPTER 4. MIGRATION AND FERTILITY OF A SMALL ISLAND POPULATION IN MANUS
- CHAPTER 5. FERTILITY AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE STRICKLAND-BOSAVI REGION
- CHAPTER 6. ‘EMPTINESS’ AND COMPLEMENTARITY IN SUAU REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES
- CHAPTER 7. COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF FERTILITY AND REPRODUCTION IN LAK, NEW IRELAND
- CHAPTER 8. HISTORY EMBODIED: AUTHENTICATING THE PAST IN THE NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS
- CHAPTER 9. FERTILITY, SEXUALITY AND MASCULINITY IN HIGHLAND NEW GUINEA
- CHAPTER 10. FERTILITY AMONG THE ANGA OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- INDEX
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