Fertility and the depopulation of Melanesia: Childlessness, abortion and introduced disease in Simbo and Ontong Java, Solomon Islands

Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

Volumn 8, Issue , 2005, Pages 13-52

  Bayliss Smith, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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