The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming
Population, Food and Family
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- Author: James W. Wood, Pennsylvania State University
- Date Published: April 2020
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107033412
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Viewing the subsistence farm as primarily a 'demographic enterprise' to create and support a family, this book offers an integrated view of the demography and ecology of preindustrial farming. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it examines how traditional farming practices interact with demographic processes such as childbearing, death, and family formation. It includes topics such as household nutrition, physiological work capacity, health and resistance to infectious diseases, as well as reproductive performance and mortality. The book argues that the farming household is the most informative scale at which to study the biodemography and physiological ecology of preindustrial, non-commercial agriculture. It offers a balanced appraisal of the farming system, considering its strengths and limitations, as well as the implications of viewing it as a 'demographic enterprise' rather than an economic one. A valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in biological and physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, natural resource management, agriculture and ecology.
Read more- Provides an innovative and analytical approach to preindustrial farming which integrates the disciplines of ecology and demography
- Reorients studies of traditional farming from the dominant 'macro' or ecosystem level towards a more revealing microdemographic and microecological scale
- Situated at the heart of the debate on traditional farming, this book offers a balanced appraisal of the system's strengths and limitations
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107033412
- length: 512 pages
- dimensions: 252 x 180 x 27 mm
- weight: 1.15kg
- contains: 214 b/w illus. 85 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Part I. Introductory Concepts:
1. Thinking about population and traditional farmers
2. Farmers, farms and farming resources
3. Limits
Part II. Macro-Demographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming:
4. A modicum of demography
5. Malthus and Boserup
6. The intensification debate after Boserup
Part III. Micro-Demographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming:
7. The farming household as a fundamental unit of analysis
8. Under-nutrition and the household demographic enterprise
9. The nature of traditional farm work and the household labor force
10. The economics of the household demographic life cycle
11. Seasonality and the household demographic enterprise
12. Beyond the household
Appendix. A bibliographic essay on subsistence farming
References
Index.
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