An ethno-historic survey of family planning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2142123 |
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| Authors | Bertil Söderberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1-4 |
| Pages | 163-180 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00141844.1971.9981043 |
| PMID | 12336545 |
| OpenAlex | W2066269750 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Family planning in the Western sense -- where the motivation may be social, humanitarian, medical or economic and demographic -- does not exist among non-European populations. The various kinds of motivations for the limiting of the number of children among different and non-Western peoples are surveyed for 1 European group (the Saracatsans in Greece), Africa, Australia and the South Pacific, Asia, and South America. Children are regarded as a form of wealth and a retirement insurance for non-Western people, and contraceptive methods are sparingly used. In instances where contraceptives are used, there are different reasons for them; these are frequently related to a magico-religious belief and are of such means as decoctions of plant medicines. To a certain extent, these methods can have been effective at least psychologically. The practice of killing the newborn is often a product of the fear of misfortune striking the family should the child be permitted to live. The use of abortion has been a reasonably effective method, based on the dread of social pressure and eventually of punishment. Withdrawal is a generally widespread method. The introduction of tampons or other object into the vagina is found in several places
Abortion · Damages · Ethnology · Family planning · Geography · Limiting · Misfortune · Political science · Population · Product (mathematics · Punishment (psychology · Research methodology · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Marriage and family in India
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Argonauts of the western Pacific
Ignorance of Physiological Paternity in Secular Knowledge and Orthodox Belief Among the Australian Aborigines
Growing Up in New Guinea
Premarital Pregnancy and Native Opinion. A Note on Social Change
Subincision and Kindred Rites of the Australian Aboriginal
The Kikuyu Problem of the Initiation of Girls
Attitudes Towards Family Planning in East-Africa
Pasteurs nomades mediterraneens. Les Saracatsans de Grece
Some general viewpoints in the study of native drugs especially from the West Indies and South America
Bajau Sex and Reproduction
Nuer Marriage Ceremonies
Boum-le-Grand, village d'Iro
The Principles of Bantu Marriage
The Status of Women Among the Nilotics and Nilo-Hamitics
| Highly cited | No |
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