TY  - CHAP
AU  - Walters, Sarah
AB  - In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition. This collection brings together anthropological case studies, placing them in a comparative framework of compositional demography and conjunctural action.  The volume addresses major issues of inequality and distribution which shape population and social structures, and in which fertility trends and the formation and size of families are not decided solely or primarily by reproduction.  In this chapter, I address these questions in relation to the  Counting Souls Project1 through two frameworks described by  Kreager and Bochow in the introduction to this volume.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctvw04c56
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1001602
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1029857921
KW  - Demography
KW  - history
KW  - Africa
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/aa0ba779-6bcb-49b9-a582-f94f3b9603f2/ch2.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28355
PB  - Berghahn Books
PP  - USA/UK
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781785336041
TI  - Chapter 2 Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000null
ER  - 
