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Female autonomy and fertility among the Garo of north central Bangladesh
American anthropologist • 91 (4) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 1000-1007
By: Harbison, Sarah F., Khaleque, T. M. Kibriaul, Robinson, Warren C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a research report on Garo fertility. The hypothesis being tested is that if there is an inverse relationship between female autonomy and fertility as suggested in the literature for India, then the Garo should have a relatively low fertility rate because it is a matrilineal society in which women supposedly enjoy a high degree of autonomy. However the data proved otherwise showing no significant difference in fertility between the Garo and other socieites of the subcontinent. The conclusion the authors draw is that larger social and economic forces override the decision-making power of any single individual.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Birth statistics
- Gender status
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tangail District, Bangladesh
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sarah F. Harbison ; T. M. Kibriaul Khaleque ; Warren C. Robinson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 1007)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garo (Indic people)