Book contents
- The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introductory Concepts
- Part II Macrodemographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming
- Part III Microdemographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming
- 7 The Farming Household as a Fundamental Unit of Analysis
- 8 Under-Nutrition and the Household Demographic Enterprise
- 9 The Nature of Traditional Farm Work and the Household Labor Force
- 10 The Economics of the Household Demographic Life Cycle
- 11 Seasonality and the Household Demographic Enterprise
- 12 Beyond the Household
- Appendix: A Bibliographic Essay on Subsistence Farming
- References
- Index
12 - Beyond the Household
from Part III - Microdemographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2020
Book contents
- The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introductory Concepts
- Part II Macrodemographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming
- Part III Microdemographic Approaches to Population and Subsistence Farming
- 7 The Farming Household as a Fundamental Unit of Analysis
- 8 Under-Nutrition and the Household Demographic Enterprise
- 9 The Nature of Traditional Farm Work and the Household Labor Force
- 10 The Economics of the Household Demographic Life Cycle
- 11 Seasonality and the Household Demographic Enterprise
- 12 Beyond the Household
- Appendix: A Bibliographic Essay on Subsistence Farming
- References
- Index
Summary
A major goal of this book has been to reframe the scientific debate over the relationship between population and preindustrial farming. One way to see how successful I have been in meeting that goal is to turn back to the section on “Rethinking the relationship between human population and traditional agriculture” in Chapter 1, which posed a series of questions that needed to be answered before further progress could be made. It is now time to revisit those questions in order to judge how far, if at all, we have advanced toward answering them.
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- The Biodemography of Subsistence FarmingPopulation, Food and Family, pp. 417 - 446Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020