Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography [Paperback]

A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today, anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography attempts a rapprochement these approaches through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation.Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today, anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography attempts a rapprochement these approaches through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation.Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today--anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. Eric Roth reconciles these approaches through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation.Part I. Anthropological Demography and Human Ecological Behavioural Ecology: 1. Two solitudes; 2. Why bother?; 3. Anthropological demography: culture, not biology; 4. Human evolutionary ecology: biology, not culture; 5. Discussion: cultural and biological reductionism; Part II. Reconciling Anthropological Demography and Human Evolutionary Ecology: 6. Common ground; 7. Demographic strategies; 8. Reproductive interests: social interactions, life effort and demographic strategies: a Rendille example; 9. Sepaade as male mating effort; 10. Rendille primogeniture as a parenting strategy; 11. Summary: demographic strategies as links between culture and biology; Part III. Mating El£¥