Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist
within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human
evolutionary ecology. The first stresses the role of culture in
determining population parameters, while the second posits that
demographic rates reflect adaptive behaviors that are the products
of natural selection. Both sub-disciplines have achieved notable
successes, but each has ignored and been actively disdainful of the
other. This text attempts a rapprochement of anthropological
demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of
common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical
framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation.
Both these approaches are utilized to search for demographic
strategies in varied cultural and temporal contexts ranging from
African pastoralists through North American post-industrial
societies. As such this book is relevant to cultural and biological
anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and historians.
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