Population and Progress in a Yoruba TownElisha Renne focuses on things associated with the human body such as houses, graves, hymens, blood, and bones as a concrete means for analyzing new ideas of fertility in an Ekiti Yoruba town in Southwestern Nigeria. By looking at how ideas about childbearing and family size are reassessed by individual and families, and underscoring their connection with local and national policies and programs, Renne argues that progress and fertility cannot be