Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Population Change, Social Reproduction and Local Understandings of Fertility in Melanesia 1
6. 1. Fertility and the Depopulation of Melanesia: Childlessness, Abortion and Introduced Disease in Simbo and Ontong Java, Solomon Islands 13
7. 2. The Impacts of Colonialism on Health and Fertility: Western New Britain 1884–1940 53
8. 3. Purari Population Decline and Resurgence across the Twentieth Century 67
9. 4. Migration and Fertility of a Small Island Population in Manus: a Long-term Analysis of its Sedentes and Migrants 90
10. 5. Fertility and Social Reproduction in the Strickland-Bosavi 110 Region 110
11. 6. ‘Emptiness’ and Complementarity in Suau Reproductive Strategies 136
12. 7. Cognitive Aspects of Fertility and Reproduction in Lak, New Ireland 159
13. 8. History Embodied: Authenticating the Past in the New Guinea Highlands 182
14. 9. Variations on a Theme: Fertility, Sexuality and Masculinity in Highland New Guinea 201
15. 10. Fertility among the Anga of Papua New Guinea: a Conspicuous Absence 218
16. Index 239