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Fewer Men, More Babies

Sex, Family, and Fertility in Haiti

Timothy T. Schwartz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2009
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-2867-1 (ISBN)

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Fewer Men, More Babies re-evaluates the debate over family patterns in the Caribbean with respect to the critical importance that child labor plays in peasant household livelihood strategies. Earlier anthropologists widely accepted and provided empirical evidence that the contributions made by children to the peasant household labor pool was a significant determinant of social patterns and high birth rates. In the 1960s researchers began to dismiss the economic utility of children. Children were conceptualized as economic burdens, wanted for emotional, religious, and cultural reasons. This ideational trend emerged in the context of changes in Western economies and corresponding shifts in ideology; it reflected agendas promoted and exported to the developing world by aid agencies; and it derailed the refinement of academic models that explain kinship and high fertility. This shortcoming is especially evident in the Caribbean. Based on original ethnographic research, this book demonstrates how the process unfolds in contemporary rural Haiti; how intensive work regimes make children necessary; how this necessity conditions sexual behavior, gender relations, and kinship; and why, despite massive contraceptive campaigns, birth rates in rural Haiti continue to be among the highest in the world. Schwartz offers a solution to a demographic paradox that some of the most prominent sociologists and demographers of the 20th century noted but were never able to explain: among impoverished small farmers, when more men are absent due to male wage migration, the women remaining behind give birth to more, not fewer, babies.

Timothy T. Schwartz is an independent researcher and consultant working in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Review of the Literature Chapter 3 The Commune of Jean Rabel Chapter 4 Extremely High Fertility Chapter 5 The Pronatal Sociocultural Fertility Complex Chapter 6 The Sexual Moral Economy Chapter 7 House, Yard, and Market Chapter 8 Farming and Household-Based Production Chapter 9 Fishing Chapter 10 Work, Craftsmen, and Marketing Specialists Chapter 11 Labor Demands Chapter 12 Gender and Age-Based Divisions of Labor Chapter 13 What Parents Have to Say about the Economic Utility of Children Chapter 14 Raising Children and Control over Child Labor Activities Chapter 15 Conjugal Union and the Formation of the Household Chapter 16 Polygyny, Progeny, and Production Chapter 17 Caribbean Family Patterns Chapter 18 Fewer Men, More Babies Chapter 19 A Reflexive and Critical Look at the Anthropology of the Caribbean

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.7.2009
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 243 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-7391-2867-1 / 0739128671
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-2867-1 / 9780739128671
Zustand	Neuware