|
Showing 1 - 1 of
1 matches in All Departments
A significant and detailed contribution to the ethnological
literature on traditional life in the Caribbean, this book analyzes
peasant subsistence strategies in contemporary rural Haiti,
ultimately showing how intensive work regimes make children
necessary; how this necessity conditions sexual behavior, gender
relations, and kinship; and why, despite massive contraceptive
campaigns, birth rates in rural Haiti continue to be among the
highest in the world. Schwartz offers a solution to a demographic
paradox that some of the most prominent sociologists and
demographers of the 20th century noted but were never able to
explain: among impoverished small farmers, when more men are absent
due to male wage migration, the women remaining behind give birth
to more, not fewer, babies.
|
You may like...
The Dance Tree
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Paperback
R365
R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
Paperback
(4)
R245
R192
Discovery Miles 1 920
Nineteen Steps
Millie Bobby Brown
Paperback
R380
R304
Discovery Miles 3 040
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.