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Title

Population pressure & cultural adjustment / Virginia Deane Abernethy ; with a new introduction by the author.

Author

Abernethy, Virginia.

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Abernethy, Virginia.

Description

xxii, 189 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this 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. Virginia Deane Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, culturally mediated values, beliefs and behavioral patterns are modified in ways that can either raise or lower rates of population growth." "This work will inevitably be controversial because of its implications for the limits as well as the potential of public policy in both advanced and underdeveloped societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Population pressure and cultural adjustment

Subject

• Demographic anthropology
• Fertility, Human

Note

• Originally published: Population pressure and cultural adjustment. New York : Human Sciences Press, c1979.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 1412804590 (alk. paper)
• 9781412804592

LCCN

^^2005048566

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library