Reviews
"A landmark in ethnographic demography. Based on more than 23 years' fieldwork and drawing from a database of 44 years, it is the first and only full study of the population dynamics of a hunting-gathering (foraging) group in Asia that relies on real actuarial data rather than mathematical models. . . . Excellent writing." -- Choice
--Choice
"Based on more than 23 years' fieldwork and drawing from a database of 44 years, it is the first and only full study of the population dynamics of a hunting-gathering (foraging) group in Asia that relies on real actuarial data rather than mathematical models. The extreme care, clarity, and precision with which geographic, demographic, and sociocultural factors are delineated and analyzed makes this a model for future works." -- Blackwell's Book Services
--Blackwell's Book Services
"A valuable case study of how local population dynamics can unfold with departure from a foraging lifeway. The great strength of the study is in long-term, careful, systematic, and localized collection and cross-checking of data that documents the local microdynamics of population change." -- American Anthropologist
--American Anthropologist
"In many respects, this book can serve as a model of demographic methodology for studying "anthropological" (I.e., small and lacking written records for vital events and populations." -American Journal of Human Biology
--American Journal of Human Biology
"This objective appraisal of the population dynamics of a group demonstrably under immediate threat is important material for representing the rights of indigenous people, overwhelmed by the unequal processes of developmental change." -Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
--Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
"An impressive reconstruction of all the demographic variables of a forager population." - Journal of Peasant Studies
--Journal of Peasant Studies
"Population Dynamics of Philippine Rain Forest People is unique because it analyzes demographic data of a foraging group over a long period of time and the subsequent cultural changes brought on by the timber industry." - Economic Botany
--Economic Botany