Research Catalog

Title

Population and progress in a Yoruba town / Elisha P. Renne.

Author

Renne, Elisha P.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

International African Institute

Description

xii,280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This study of local perceptions of population and development in a rural southwestern Nigerian town questions some of the underlying assumptions of the demographic theory of fertility transition. Fertility transition theory and modernisation theory from which it derives have not explained why fertility remains high, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, despite the presence of some conditions associated with its decline in Western societies, nor why development, despite a plethora of projects, has failed to 'take-off'. As this study demonstrates, neither fertility change nor development follows a universal trajectory. Whether lower fertility or Western models of development are viewed as possible or advantageous reflects cultural ideas about proper social relations as well as political and economic conditions, which may hinder or facilitate these changes."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

International African library ; [28]

Uniform Title

International African library ; [28].

Subject

• Since 1970
• Yoruba (African people)
• Fertility, Human > Nigeria
• Nigeria > Population
• Nigeria > Economic conditions > 1970-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Anthropological and Demographic Concerns -- 1. Introduction: Paradoxes of Progress -- 2. Historical and Anthropological Aspects of Itapa: Centripetal and Centrifugal Tendencies -- 3. Demographic Dimensions of Itapa-Ekiti -- pt. II. Bodies, Persons and Social Relations -- 4. Women's Bodies, Virginity and Marriage -- 5. Child-fostering, Blood Ties and Parenthood -- 6. Burial, Rebirth and Relations with the Dead -- pt. III. Population, Development and the State -- 7. Personal Hygiene, Public Sanitation and Western Education -- 8. Houses, Descendants and Land Tenure -- 9. Counting Bodies: Censuses, Vital Registration and the Creation of Ekiti State -- 10. Conclusion: Local Development, Politics and Two Funerals -- App. I. Research Methods and Materials -- App. II. Important Dates in Itapa and Nigerian History -- App. III. Contraception Ever Used by Itapa-Ekiti Women, based on 1992, 1997 Surveys.

ISBN

0748618155

OCLC

• 52143724
• SCSB-11879401

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Harvard Library