Mortality patterns in anthropological populations
By: edited by Ellen R. Brennan.
Contributors: Brennan, Ellen R.; Fix, Alan G.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Mortality -- Congresses.; Demographic anthropology -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Studies ... presented at the Symposium on Mortality Patterns in Anthropological Populations at the annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Detroit, Michigan, on April 19, 1981; organized by E.R. Brennan and discussed by Alan Fix"--T.p. verso.
"Reprinted from Human biology, volume 55, number 1, 1983"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Patterns of infant mortality in the Polish community of Chappell Hill, Texas 1895-1944 / Jeannie Fredon Boatler; title: Pre-reproductive mortality and family structure: Sanday, Orkney Island 1855-1974 / Ellen R. Brennan; title: A comparison of mortality patterns in human populations residing under diverse ecological conditions: a time series analysis / Paul M. Lin and Michael H. Crawford; title: Estimating vital rates for incomplete pedigrees / Christopher M. Lynch, Bennett Dyke, and Peter G. Riviere; title: Skeletal age at death: accuracy of determination and implications for human demography / Richard S. Meindl, C. Owen Lovejoy, and Robert P. Mensforth; title: Mortality changes in the Hutterite brethren of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada / Kenneth Morgan; title: Patterns of infant mortality in the upper St. John valley French population: 1791-1838 / Marcella H. Sorg and Beatrice C. Craig; title: Family patterns in longevity and longevity patterns of the family / Alan C. Swedlund, Richard S. Meindl, Judith Nydon, and Margaret I. Gradie; title: Infant mortality patterns in Aland, Finland / P. Gene Trapp, James H. Mielke, Lynn B. Jorde, and Alsur W. Eriksson.