Books in the Population and Development Series series

In the past anthropology often used demographic research, but the two disciplines have recently grown to distrust each other's assumptions and methods. In order to show that they have much to offer each other, this book seeks to bridge the demography/anthropology divide, and examines major issues.

Between 1965 and 1985 the Western world - and the US in particular - experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. In "Birth quake" Macunovich argues that the common thread underlying these changes was the post-war baby boom, and their passage into adulthood.

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's five-hundred-year history of marriage, this work reveals what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a society where marriage and the relationships between women and men have changed dramatically.

European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid- twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced.