Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, C. 1870-1986

ISBN-13: 9780198287544 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 224 str.

Matthew Lockwood

Opis

Combining demography, history, and sociology, this book offers a new methodology for the study of African fertility and a new definition of the role of household demography in agrarian economies. It provides a useful perspective on the ways in which human reproduction both reflects upon and reacts with the reproduction trends of society and economy in coastal Tanzania. Part I asserts a political economy of changing fertility; Part II studies the implications of demographic patterns for people's work-loads and economic fortunes at the individual and household levels.

Recenzje

This empirically grounded study provides valuable insight into village-level demographics in an East African community and a highly logical critique of conventional demographic theory ... a valuable addition to the contemporary literature on Tanzania and to theories of the peasant household.