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Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern
and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a
transition to settled life. Pastoral sedentarization represents a
response to multiple factors, including loss of livestock due to
drought and famine, increased competition for range land due to
growing populations, land privatization or appropriation for
commercial farms, ranches, and tourist game parks, and to fear of
increasing violence, ethnic conflict, and civil war. Although
pastoral settlement is often encouraged by international
development agencies and national governments as solutions to food
insecurity, poor health care and problems of governance, the
social, economic and health concomitants of sedentism are not
inevitably beneficial. Biosocial studies presented in this volume,
for example, point to greater nutritional and health benefits among
nomadic livestock keepers, but increased opportunities in
education, employment, and food security in towns.
Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a transition to settled life. This reference shows that although pastoral settlement is often encouraged by international development agencies and national governments, the social, economic and health consequences of sedentism are not inevitably beneficial.
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.
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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