Population Growth: Anthropological Implications

Description

Editor: Spooner, Brian  (1935-)

Publisher: MIT University Press

Pub Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Previous owner’s name stamped on front pastedown.   There is a crease on the upper text block corner that extends from the free front end paper to page 102.  It’s not serious, and the “crease” decreases the further you get into the text.  Probably the book was dropped at some point in the last almost 50 years.  Some minor edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  Chips and missing pieces along top and bottom edge.  One approx. 1/” tear at lower front spine edge.  One approx. 3″ split at front spine edge.  Scuffing, wear.  Now in mylar.

Notes: The “Boserup Model” –population growth should be treated as an independent variable when it comes to technological and cultural change, i.e., how agriculture affects the economics of development–is the basis for these conference papers.  Ranging across the globe and time, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe, from prehistoric Eskimo to Tibetan nomads, the first half of the book covers agriculture, the second half deals with how technology and technological change affect agriculture and population.  Wendell Berry meets Thomas Malthus.  Lots of jargon but interesting as hell.