Maureen A Molloy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4063719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen A Molloy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Molloy |
| SIGNATURE | MOLLOY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology University of Auckland Private Bag Auckland New Zealand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Creating a Usable Culture
Margaret Mead's career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. This book explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced, the meanings of American culture and secured for herself a unique and enduring place in the American popular imagination. It considers this in relation to Mead's four popular ethnographies wr…
Modeling the prehistoric Maori population
Skeletal and comparative evidence of mortality is combined with fertility estimates for the precontact Maori population of New Zealand to determine the implied rate of precontact population growth. This rate is found to be too low to populate New Zealand within the time constraints of its prehistoric sequence, the probable founding population size, and the probable population size at contact. Rates of growth necessary to populate New Zealand with…
Deconstructing Pacific palaeodemography
Three demographic assumptions which underlie widely accepted models of process in Polynesian prehistory are examined. These are: 1) that population growth follows a sigmoid curve; 2) that the form of this curve is density dependent; and 3) that mortality increased as density rose. We argue that these three assumptions are based on the misuse of demographic algorithms; misapplication of a model based on colonising animal populations and the use of…
On Creating a Usable Culture
Margaret Mead's career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. This book explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced, the meanings of American culture and secured for herself a unique and enduring place in the American popular imagination. It considers this in relation to Mead's four popular ethnographies wr…
Modeling the prehistoric Maori population
Skeletal and comparative evidence of mortality is combined with fertility estimates for the precontact Maori population of New Zealand to determine the implied rate of precontact population growth. This rate is found to be too low to populate New Zealand within the time constraints of its prehistoric sequence, the probable founding population size, and the probable population size at contact. Rates of growth necessary to populate New Zealand with…
Deconstructing Pacific palaeodemography
Three demographic assumptions which underlie widely accepted models of process in Polynesian prehistory are examined. These are: 1) that population growth follows a sigmoid curve; 2) that the form of this curve is density dependent; and 3) that mortality increased as density rose. We argue that these three assumptions are based on the misuse of demographic algorithms; misapplication of a model based on colonising animal populations and the use of…
Deconstructing Pacific palaeodemography
Three demographic assumptions which underlie widely accepted models of process in Polynesian prehistory are examined. These are: 1) that population growth follows a sigmoid curve; 2) that the form of this curve is density dependent; and 3) that mortality increased as density rose. We argue that these three assumptions are based on the misuse of demographic algorithms; misapplication of a model based on colonising animal populations and the use of…
Modeling the prehistoric Maori population
Skeletal and comparative evidence of mortality is combined with fertility estimates for the precontact Maori population of New Zealand to determine the implied rate of precontact population growth. This rate is found to be too low to populate New Zealand within the time constraints of its prehistoric sequence, the probable founding population size, and the probable population size at contact. Rates of growth necessary to populate New Zealand with…
On Creating a Usable Culture
Margaret Mead's career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. This book explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced, the meanings of American culture and secured for herself a unique and enduring place in the American popular imagination. It considers this in relation to Mead's four popular ethnographies wr…
Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (2 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Prehistory (2 works) · 1901-1978 (1 work) · 1939-1945 (1 work)