Search Results for demography

...Marcia J. Frost Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 The Demography of Famines: An Indian Historical Perspective . By Arup Maharatna . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xviii, 317 pp. $32.00 (cloth). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 581 up rights...

...Mridula Udayagiri India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography . By Nigel Crook . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . vi, 181 pp. $21.00. Power, Poverty and Poison: Disaster and Response in an Indian City . By James Manor . New Delhi : Sage Publications...

... policies. Their opponents tend to be liberals who argue that decent social programs are necessary, desirable, and sustainable and dismiss as exaggerated the claims of what they call the “catastrophic demography” school. The critics do not deny that population aging is a significant problem, but they tend...

... Countries , edited by Bulatao Rodolfo A. and Lee Ronald D. . New York : Academic Press . Guinnane Timothy W. , Okun Barbara S. , and Trussell James . 1994 . “ What Do We Know about the Timing of Fertility Transitions in Europe? ” Demography 31 ( 1 ): 1 – 20 . Gutmann...

...Pauline Kolenda Kindreds of the Earth: Badaga Household Structure and Demography . By Paul Hockings . Walnut Creek, Calif. : Sage Publications Ltd. , 1992 . 302 pp. $32.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 1224 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Sri...

...Herbert P. Bix The Demography of Sociopolitical Conflict in Japan, 1721–1846 . By James W. White . Japan Research Monograph. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California , Berkeley , 1992 . 101 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK...

...C. A. Bayly The City in Indian History: Urban Demography, Society, and Politics . Edited by Indu Banga . New Delhi : South Asia Publications , 1991 . xviii, 300 pp. Ports and Their Hinterlands in India (1700–1950) . Edited by Indu Banga . New Delhi : Manohar Publications...

...Diane L. Wolf Development, Demography, and Family Decision Making: The Status of Women in Rural Java . By Linda B. Williams . Boulder : Westview Press , 1990 . xvii, 157 pp. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 752 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...William Lavely; James Lee; Wang Feng Abstract As recently as one decade ago, there was no “field” of Chinese demography. There were virtually no demographers of China and little available data. It is fair to say that China was at once the largest and the least known of any human population...

... serious. No backlog of technically competent and conceptually mature research on the demography of Korea exists to guide either the analysis of the present or the assessment of the future. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 1 These census counts are those given...

...Barbara Diane Miller Abstract Several studies of health and population dynamics in India are reviewed. The perspectives of the various authors include anthropology, public health, demography, and economics. The review focuses on how the studies contribute to the understanding of two areas...

...Alice W. Clark Vital Rates in India, 1961–1981 . By P. N. Mari Bhat , Samuel Preston , and Tim Dyson . Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press , 1984 . (Report no. 24, Committee on Population and Demography.) xvi, 173 pp. Tables, Figures, Glossary, References. $16.50. Copyright ©...

... 1973; Chao 1986; Huang 1990). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 List of References Barclay George W. , Coale Ansley J. , Stoto Michael A. , and Trussell James . 1976 . “ A Reassessment of the Demography of Traditional Rural China .” Population...

... and comprehensive summary of claims and counterclaims concerning family planning and population in Tibet. Childs criticizes the ways in which China has used population data to rationalize its intervention into Tibetans' reproductive lives and draws attention to careless scholarship on the demography...

... Vital Rates in India, 1961-1981. By P. N . MARI BHAT, SAMUEL PRESTON, and TIM DYSON. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1984. (Report no. 24, Committee on Population and Demography.) xvi, 173 pp. Tables, Figures, Glossary, References. $16.50. This is one of a series of "country reports" issued...

... described. University of Michigan RICHARD K. BEARDSLEY Kinsei Nihon jinko no kenkyU (Studies in the demography of Tokugawa Japan). By SEKIYAMA NAOTARO !3PuIiO;I|S. Tokyo: Ryuginsha, 1948. iv + iv + 282 p. Students of Japan's pre-Restoration demography have been plagued by lack of reliable statistical data...

... . Vilyatpur 1848–1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village . Berkeley : University of California Press . Kessinger Tom G. 1976 . “ Historical Demography of India: Results and Possibilities .” Peasant Studies 5 : 2 – 8 . Khare R. S. 1976 a. The Hindu Hearth and Home...

... : Tata McGraw-Hill . Akers Donald S. 1967 . “ On Measuring the Marriage Squeeze .” Demography 4 : 907 –24. Basu Alaka Malwade . 1989 . “ Is Discrimination in Food Really Necessary for Explaining Sex Differentials in Childhood Mortality? ” Population Studies 43 : 193 – 210...

... and China. Some Korean nationalist scholars have been critical of Ch'oe for his supposed collaboration with the Japanese, but Allen argues that his ideas were an authentically Korean nationalist challenge to prevailing theories about Korean culture. In a broad-ranging discussion of Chinese demography...

... ethnolinguistic group to another. Settlement patterns exhibit clustering; they are neither random nor evenly spaced. The stated objectives of the monograph are quite well realized in the areas of demography and settlement patterns and in the demonstration of the importance of scale in data gathering and analysis...