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Counting Souls: Towards an historical demography of Africa [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2016 Background: Little is known about even the relatively recent demographic history of Africa, because of the lack of data. Elsewhere, historical demographic trends have been reconstructed by applying family reconstitution to church records.
Sarah Walters
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Diversification and historical demography of Rhampholeon spectrum in West-Central Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Pygmy Chameleons of the genus Rhampholeon represent a moderately diverse, geographically circumscribed radiation, with most species (18 out of 19 extant taxa) limited to East Africa. The one exception is Rhampholeon spectrum, a species restricted to West-
Walter Paulin Tapondjou Nkonmeneck +7 more
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Introduction: Urban-Rural Differences in Historical Demography [PDF]
Historical Life Course Studies, 2018 Systematic research on urban-rural variation in demographic behavior is necessary to overcome dichotomous views resulting from studying cities and the countryside separately.
Christa Matthys, Jan Kok, Richard Paping
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Becoming and Belonging in African Historical Demography, 1900–2000 [PDF]
, 2017 In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them.
Walters S.
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Health and historical demography [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter explores the relevance of work in anthropometric history and the history of sickness to the study of historical demography. The book in which it appears has been commissioned by the Europeam Society for Historical Demography in advance of its second conference.
Harris, Bernard
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Strength in Numbers. A Short Note on the Past, Present and Future of Large Historical Databases
Historical Life Course Studies, 2021 Historical demography is inherently associated with constructing large-scale databases from historical records. Although there have been tremendous changes in the way they are constructed, many of the challenges remain.
Lionel Kesztenbaum
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Историко-географический журнал, 2022 The article discusses the main areas of historical-demographic and historical-geographical research conducted at the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Federal Research Center «Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian ...
N. M. Ignatova
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Historical Life Course Studies, 2022 The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database (BHMD) gathers records of the more than 600,000 marriages celebrated in the Diocese of Barcelona and their taxation registered in Barcelona Cathedral's so-called Marriage Licenses Books for the long period 1451–
Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora +6 more
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The Richness of Italian Historical Demography
Historical Life Course Studies, 2020 In this paper, we present a new methodology for the reconstruction of individual life-histories based on information derived from the integration of different parish registers.
Marco Breschi +2 more
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Madresahs and Moravians. Muslim educational institutions in the Cape Colony, 1792 to 1910
Contree, 2006 The vigorous revival of Christian missionary activity after 1792 with the return of the Moravians and the arrival of the London Missionary Society had little effect on Cape Town Muslims. By 1793 the Dorp Street school (madrasah) was established. By then,
Robert Shell
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