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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    30 April 2020
    23 April 2020
    ISBN:
    9781139519700
    9781107033412
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139519700
    Dimensions:
    (247 x 174 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.15kg, 512 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (87)
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    Subjects:
    Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Biological Anthropology and Primatology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (87)
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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.

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    • 1 - Thinking about Population and Traditional Farmers
      pp 3-40
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