Strategies of survival; lectures on population, disease, war, famine
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Video
Change log
Authors
Macfarlane, Alan
Abstract
Lectures on the theories of Malthus, and on disease, war and famine, including theories of McKeown, Adam Smith and Amartya Sen
Description
Three lectures, the first given in 2006, the rest in 2007, by Alan Macfarlane and filmed by Emma Katherine Wallace. Part of an interdisciplinary course between Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
Keywords
Malthus, McKeown, population, war, famine, disease, malaria, dysentery