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Children and change in Orasac, 1870-1975: a Serbian perspective on fertility decline
University of Massachusetts • (22) • Published In 1992 • Pages: i, 52
By: Wagner, Richard A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper is a study in historical demography dealing with the Serbian village of Orasac from the demographic, ethnographic, oral traditional, and socio-linguistic perspectives. The time span of this work is primarily from 1870-1975, although on occasion data may be included from an earlier time period (generally from the 1780s to 1870). The major focus of this study, fertility decline in the area '…is particularly important as Wagner's analyses provide an essential perspective on the long-term process of ecological transformation which proceeded [sic] the industrialization of this part of the Balkans in the postwar period' (p. i). In addition to the general theme of fertility which runs throughout this document, other topics discussed in some detail are birth rates, family size, birth control, and abortion. A series of twenty-nine tables at the end of this work summarize much of the author's data as presented in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Birth statistics
- Conception
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Serbs
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1870-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Orasac Village, Serbia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard A. Wagner ; with an introduction by Joel M. Halpern
- Cover title: 'An extract from Richard A. Wagner's doctoral dissertation, Children and change in a Serbian village, 1870-1975'--Introd.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-33)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94237413
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Serbs