Population, reproduction, and fertility in Melanesia

Description:

"This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense."--Jacket.

subjects: Human reproduction,  Demographic anthropology,  Population,  Human Fertility,  Social life and customs,  Fertility, human,  Melanesia,  Oceania, social conditions,  Population Characteristics,  Fertility,  Reproductive Behavior,  Cultural Anthropology

Places: Melanesia