Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference

Philip Kreager is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; and Reseach Associate, Department of Sociology, Oxford University. He has written extensively on the history and conceptual development of population theory and analysis in European culture, and on comparative family systems and anthropological demography.

List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables

Preface



Introduction

Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow



Chapter 1. The Key to Fertility: Generation, Reproduction and Class Formation in a Namibian Community

Julia Pauli



Chapter 2. Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900-2000

Sarah Walters

This chapter is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY) thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.



Chapter 3. Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity: The Reproduction of Subgroups in the South of Tajikistan

Sophie Roche and Sophie Hohmann



Chapter 4. Feeling Secure to Reproduce: Economy, Community and Fertility in Southern Europe

Patrick Heady



Chapter 5. Ambivalent Men: Male Dilemmas and Fertility Control in Senegal

Sara Randall, Nathalie Mondain, and Alioune Diagne



Chapter 6. Accounting for Reproductive Difference: Sociality, Temporality and Individuality during Pregnancy in Cameroon

Erica van der Sijpt



Chapter 7. Understanding Childlessness in Botswana: Reproduction and Tswana-nization of Middle-Class Identities in the Twenty-First Century

Astrid Bochow



Chapter 8. Low Fertility and Secret Family Planning in Lesotho

Lena L. Kroeker



Chapter 9. ‘The Doctor’s Way’: Traditional Contraception and Modernity in Cambodia

Eleanor Hukin



Chapter 10. Demographers on Culture: Fertility, Nuptiality, Family Structures

Yves Charbit and Véronique Petit



Chapter 11. Vital Conjunctures Revisited

Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks



Index