Culture and Human Fertility

Comportamento reprodutivo de mulheres indígenas no Alto Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brasil: uma perspectiva antropológica

“…Em uma abordagem cultural, Lorimer (1958) ressalta os valores e práticas reprodutivas como parte da estrutura social, relacionadas aos sistemas de organização interna de cada sociedade.…”

Population Genetics and Population Ecology

“…Since the society has to reproduce at a maximum simply to maintain the population size, these birth practices can be viewed as a cultural adaptation to this situation. The fact that many of these tropical agriculturalists with high death rates are matrilineal, I think explains Lorimer's (1954) association between high fertility and matriliny. With this rather constant high fertility the differences in the reproduction rates of African populations are thus determined to a great extent by the variability in the death rate.…”

Family systems and fertility : fertility behaviour in Europe from a network perspective

“…While one explanation might be that family systems norm only become important at even higher parities -which I did not regard due to data limitation -, another explanation could be that my original assumptions were misleading. As, for example, discussed by Lorimer (1954), strong family regions do not necessarily promote fertility. Depending on the context, such as degree of competition for resources, there might be no motivation for kin to support fertility (p. 247).…”

“…The ways how our two families are organized are not random phenomena. In fact, they relate to more universal principles of family organization anchored in regional family cultures, so called family or kinship systems (Lorimer 1954;Goody 1996;Reher 1998: 215;Oppenheim Mason 2001). Family systems can be defined as sets "of beliefs and norms, common practices, and associated sanctions through which kinship and the rights and obligations of particular kin relationships are defined" (Oppenheim Mason 2001: 160).…”

“…The SDT is characterized by a rise in age at marriage, lower marriage rates, a rise in pre-marital cohabitation and divorce, rising childlessness and rising extra-marital fertility (Lesthaeghe and Neels 2002: 331). ), World Bank, United Nations (1948, 1954, 1959 and national statistics 20 )…”