Abstract
Aware of significant theoretical and methodological limitations of mainstream demographic research, demographers have seen in sociocultural anthropology a potential source of enriching their work. As this chapter shows, anthropologists have long been interested in core demographic topics, yet many work on these topics with little reference to the demographic literature. After discussing the theoretical and methodological reasons why demographers have looked to anthropology, including both the concept of culture and the value of participant observation fieldwork, this chapter surveys the major work by anthropologists on demographic issues. Special attention is given to recent anthropological work on reproduction, marriage, mortality and migration.
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Notes
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Curiously, the instructions on “Population” in the original 1874 edition of Notes and Queries on Anthropology were written by Francis Galton. His first admonition was “Count wherever you can” (1874: 139).
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For a fuller account of this history, see Kertzer and Fricke (1997).
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Johnson-Hanks (2008) offers a more recent critique of demographic transition theory from an anthropological perspective.
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For a recent review of the anthropological literature on the link between marriage and migration, see Brettell (2017).
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Kertzer, D.I. (2019). 23 Anthropological Demography. In: Poston, D.L. (eds) Handbook of Population. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10910-3_24
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