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Science that colonizes : a critique of fertility studies in Africa

xiv, 174 pages : 24 cm In this book, Agnes Riedmann introduces and explores "World System Demography," an original concept that refers to demography as a global, bureaucratically administered science that is controlled by the elite within First World nations. For her case, Riedmann analyzes data collected in Nigeria, the country with a fertility rate above the African average. Funded by a U.S. organization, three large-scale research projects were carried out among the Yoruba in the early 1970s. Riedmann maintains that World System Demography, exemplified by such studies, is an agent of First …

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Date	1993-01-01
Type	texts
Details	ia subject
Found at	https://archive.org/details/sciencethatcolon0000ried
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Science that colonizes : a critique of fertility studies in Africa. Internet Archive, 1993. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:sciencethatcolon0000ried.