Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction -- 1. The Theory of Population Homeostasis -- Food -- Anticipatory Mechanisms -- Individual Fitness -- Nonhuman Primate Examples -- Homeostatic Regulation of Human Populations -- Perceived Scarcity -- 2. Measures of Scarcity -- Problems in Evaluating Scarcity -- Direct Indicators -- Inferential Indicators -- Crowding -- 3. Sociocultural Mechanisms which Limit Population -- Premarital Sex and Marriage Rules -- Abstinence -- Sexual Outlets with Low Fertility Consequences -- Birth Control -- Abortion -- Mortality -- Conclusion -- 4. The Evidence: Its Quality, Order of Presentation, and Material from Nonwestern Societies -- The Theory of Scientific Proof -- Evidence From Nonwestem Societies -- The New Guinea Highlands -- Population Pressure Differentials -- The Enga Response: Restrictions on Sex -- Enga Theory -- Fore Sexuality -- Fore Response to Death -- Culture Contrasts -- The Netsilik Eskimo -- Environmental Pressure -- Infanticide -- Male-Female Relationships -- Testing the Hypothesis -- Conclusion -- 5. The Sensitivity of Self-Contained Societies, and Other Sources of Evidence -- Islands -- Three Longitudinal Studies -- Norway -- Environmental Pressure -- Marriage Age -- The Irish Potato Famine and the Ascendancy of the Roman Catholic Church -- Population Growth -- The Catholic Church -- Marriage Age -- Yap: A Pacific Island -- Environmental Pressure -- Sexual Mores -- Sterility -- Infanticide -- Other Research Possibilities -- The Late Roman Empire -- Population Fluctuations -- Culture Change -- The Christian Church -- Conclusion -- 6. Delayed Response to Population Pressure -- Alternate Hypotheses -- Scarcity -- The Locus of Responsibility
