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Original Article

Continuing high fertility in a culturally-embedded Mennonite farming society

James P. Hurd Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Drive, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55112, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 69-75 | Received 31 Mar 2009, Accepted 12 May 2010, Published online: 22 Jun 2010

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