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Sex, Family & Fertility in Haiti

Paperback • 2012 • English

Sex, Family & Fertility in Haiti

By Timothy T. Schwartz

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About the book

A significant and detailed contribution to the ethnological literature on traditional life in the Caribbean, this book analyzes peasant subsistence strategies in contemporary rural Haiti, ultimately showing 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 demogra...Show more

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9781468129663

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Sex, Family & Fertility in Haiti

Format

Paperback

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