Petit (Véronique). - Society of origin and the logics of migration : the Dogon of Sangha (Mali) The migration system of the Dogon of Sangha (Mali) contains three components: a migration to agricultural lands in the Seno Gondo plain, an internal migration, and an international migration, the two...

Population was the subject of two major conceptual developments in the second quarter of the 20th century. Both were inspired by evolutionary biology. Lotka developed a mathematics of evolution in human and other species by analogy to thermodynamic models. His theory followed demographic...

Indonesian family systems do not conform to the prevailing image of Asian families, the predominant arrangements being nuclear and bilateral, with an important matrilineal minority. This paper considers the strength of family ties in two communities, focussing particularly on inter-generational...