Counting Populations, Understanding Societies: Towards a Interpretative Demography

by Véronique Petit

The core aim of this book is to determine how anthropology and demography can be used in conjunction in the field of population and development.

The boundaries of demography are not as clearly defined or as stable as one might think, especially in view of the tension between a formal demography centered on the 'core of procedures and references' and a more open form of demography, generally referred to as Population Studies.

Many rapprochements,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400798644
• ISBN13: 9789400798649
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"