The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming: Population, Food and Family (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary An...
The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming: Population, Food and Family (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary An... The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming: Population, Food and Family (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary An... OTHER ARTICLES Viewing the subsistence farm as primarily a 'demographic enterprise' to create and support a family, this book offers an integrated view of the demography and ecology of preindustrial farming. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it examines how traditional farming practices interact with demographic processes such as childbearing, death, and family formation. It includes topics such as household nutrition, physiological work capacity, health and resistance to infectious diseases, as well as reproductive performance and mortality. The book argues that the farming household is the most informative scale at which to study the biodemography and physiological ecology of preindustrial, non-commercial agriculture. I...