Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia / / ed. by Stanley Ulijaszek.

• MitwirkendeR: Ataka, Yuji,; Bayliss-Smith, Tim,; Bonnemère, Pascale,; Demian, Melissa,; Dwyer, Peter D.,; Gosden, C.,; Kingston, Sean,; Lemonnier, Pierre,; Minnegal, Monica,; Ohtsuka, Ryutaro,; O’Hanlon, Michael,; Ulijaszek, Stanley J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ulijaszek, Stanley,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures and Tables --; List of Contributors --; Introduction: Population Change, Social Reproduction and Local Understandings of Fertility in Melanesia --; 1. Fertility and the Depopulation of Melanesia: Childlessness, Abortion and Introduced Disease in Simbo and Ontong Java, Solomon Islands --; 2. The Impacts of Colonialism on Health and Fertility: Western New Britain 1884–1940 --; 3. Purari Population Decline and Resurgence across the Twentieth Century --; 4. Migration and Fertility of a Small Island Population in Manus: a Long-term Analysis of its Sedentes and Migrants --; 5. Fertility and Social Reproduction in the Strickland-Bosavi 110 Region --; 6. ‘Emptiness’ and Complementarity in Suau Reproductive Strategies --; 7. Cognitive Aspects of Fertility and Reproduction in Lak, New Ireland --; 8. History Embodied: Authenticating the Past in the New Guinea Highlands --; 9. Variations on a Theme: Fertility, Sexuality and Masculinity in Highland New Guinea --; 10. Fertility among the Anga of Papua New Guinea: a Conspicuous Absence --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857455581
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857455581
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stanley Ulijaszek.

Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. 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.