The structure of an African pastoralist community : demography, history, and ecology of the Ngamiland Herero /

The structure of an African pastoralist community : demography, history, and ecology of the Ngamiland Herero /

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Author / Creator:Pennington, Renee
Imprint:Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Description:xvi, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Research monographs on human population biology
Subject:
Herero (African people) -- Population.
Fertility, Human -- Botswana.
Fertility, Human.
Botswana.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1472052
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Other authors / contributors:Harpending, Henry
ISBN:019852286X (cloth) : £45.00 (approx.) ($77.50 U.S.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and background
  • 1. Field-work and methods
  • 2. Infant and childhood mortality
  • 3. Mortality after early childhood
  • 4. Measures of fertility, past and present
  • 5. Causes of fertility transition
  • 6. Life history and marriage
  • 7. Child fosterage and social parenthood
  • 8. Herero and Kung comparative demography
  • 9. History and population change

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