TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brand,Saskia
TI  - Mediating Means and Fate: A Socio-Political Analysis of Fertility and Demographic Change in Bamako, Mali 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004492042
AV  - HB1076.3.B36 
U1  - 304.6/32/096623 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Fertility, Human
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Mali
KW  - Bamako
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Bamako (Mali)
KW  - Population
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Why do birth rates fail to drop in Sub-Saharan Africa? This question has preoccupied demographers and population planners for decades. The expectation of fertility decline is based on the demographic transition model which still dominates demographic thinking, and which assumes a universal development towards low mortality and fertility levels following modernisation. This book argues that population dynamics can only be understood when viewed in their particular context. It provides both a critique of demographic methods and theorizing, and a detailed analysis of fertility issues in the rapidly changing urban environment of Bamako, capital city of Mali. A new light is shed on the population debate through the conceptualization of the meso-level, illuminating a part of the social world which usually remains obscure
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004492042
ER  -