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Title Shifting boundaries of fertility change in Southwestern Nigeria
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/40192
Date 1996
Author(s) Renne, Elisha
Contributor(s) Jones, G. W.; Douglas, R. M.; Caldwell, J. C.; D'Souza, Rennie
Abstract Anthropologists and demographers rely on distinctive methodologies and forms of evidence even while they share a common interest in explaining fertility change. This paper proposes a cultural anthropological approach that focuses on the process whereby meanings associated with practices and things are reinterpreted over time. Using the image of shifting boundaries of kinship relations, it examines changing interpretations of three fundamental aspects of social life-family land, marriage, and foster parenthood-in the Ekiti area of Southwestern Nigeria which suggest an attenuation of the mutual obligations of extended kin. While these reinterpretations have moral associations that legitimate practices supporting fertility decline, political and economic uncertainty may counter this process. - no
Subject(s) Southwestern Nigeria; fertility change; anthropologists; demographers; kinship; family land; marriage; foster parent; political and economic uncertainty; busi-deve; scls-demo; scls-anth; scls-edct
Language en_AU
Publisher Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
Type of publication pjournal
Format 78975 bytes; application/pdf
Rights yes
Identifier suppl.; 169-190; Health Transition Review; 6; 1996; 899
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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