Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

List of contents

1: The Theory of Population Homeostasis; 2: Measures of Scarcity; 3: Sociocultural Mechanisms Which Limit Population; 4: The Evidence: Its Quality, Order of Presentation, and Material From Nonwestern Societies; 5: The Sensitivity of Self-Contained Societies, and Other Sources of Evidence; 6: Delayed Response to Population Pressure; 7: Fertility Trends and Homeostatic Mechanisms in The United States; 8: Conclusion

About the author

Virginia Deane Abernethy

Summary

Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Deane Abernethy, Abernethy Virginia Deane
• Assisted by: Virginia Deane Abernethy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138530515
• ISBN: 978-1-138-53051-5
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Population & demography, Population and Demography