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