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The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography (Hardcover, New): Alaka Malwade Basu, Peter Aaby

The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography (Hardcover, New)

Alaka Malwade Basu, Peter Aaby

Series: International Studies in Demography

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This volume takes stock of the current status of the comparatively new discipline of `Anthropological Demography', and discusses its major methods, its main strengths, and its chief limitations. It includes contributions from both mainstream demographers and foremost anthropologists, all stressing the necessity of a shared agenda for each discipline to progress successfully and avoid marginalization. While the unique research and personal satisfaction afforded by `participant observation' is described, the book also highlights the potential contribution to the understanding of demographic events of much more than the field methods of traditional anthropology. In particular, it stresses the insights possible from qualitative focus group interviews, from longitudinal studies and from a greater interest in `armchair' anthropology, in which demographers complement their quantitative findings with qualitative information and understanding gleaned from a careful reading of the anthropological literature, in the form of both ethnographies and anthropological theories. In addition, it stresses the larger world of the ideal anthropological demographer: a world that includes the cultural context of course, but also takes into account the historical and political forces that condition so much individual behaviour. But the book is also a critical venture. It includes therefore considerable discussion of the common limits of the purely anthropological approach for understanding demographic events and processes, especially from a larger policy perspective, at the same time as it emphasizes the crucial role of the anthropological approach to designing policy that is potentially effective as well as socially and culturally sensitive. It reiterates the often complementary role of anthropological demography and also discusses some specific questions in demographic research which it does not as yet seem to have the capacity to illuminate. The book is aimed primarily at demographers wishing to broaden their research agenda and deepen their understanding of demographic behaviour, but it also hopes to convert mainstream anthropologists to take a more active interest in demographic issues. Both disciplines, after all, have a common intense interest in the kind of life and death issues that they can fruitfully explore together or by using one another's research methods.

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Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: International Studies in Demography
Release date: September 1998
First published: September 1998
Editors: Alaka Malwade Basu (Senior Research Associate, Division of Nutritional Sciences) • Peter Aaby (Research Professor in Health Conditions in Developing Countries, Department of Epidemiology)
Dimensions: 243 x 162 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829337-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General
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LSN: 0-19-829337-2
Barcode: 9780198293378

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