Categories and contexts : anthropological and historical studies in critical demography /
Demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | International studies in demography.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I. THE HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEMOGRAPHY AND ITS CATEGORIES
- Contextualizing categories: towards a critical reflexive demography / Simon Szreter [and others]
- Objectifying demographic identities / Philip Kreager
- Malthus' anti-rhetorical rhetoric, or, on the magical conversion of the imaginary into the real / Charles L. Briggs
- PART II. CATEGORIES AS POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS
- Editors' introduction / Simon Szreter [and others]
- The linguistic construction of social and medical categories in the work of the English General Register Office, 1837-1950 / Edward Higgs
- Racial/colour categorization in US and Brazilian censuses / Melissa Nobles
- Towards a Soviet order of things: the 1926 Census and the making of the Soviet Union / Francine Hirsch
- Making up China's 'black population' / Susan Greenhalgh
- Internal diaspora and state imagination: Colombia's failure to envision a nation / Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo
- Users, non-users, clients, and help-seekers: the use of categories in research on health behavior / Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer
- Etic and emic categories in male sexual health: a case study from Orissa / Martine Collumbien [and others]
- PART III. CONTEXTS AS CRITIQUES OF CATEGORIES
- Editors' introduction / Simon Szreter [and others]
- Measuring the population of a northeast Thai village / Aree Prohmmo, John Bryant
- 'Un noviazgo después de ser casados': companionate marriage, sexual intimacy, and the modern Mexican family / Jennifer S. Hirsch
- Gender roles and women's status: what they mean to Hausa Muslim women in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
- Re-contextualizing the female-headed household: culture and agency in Uganda / Paula Jean Davis
- Demography's ecological frontier: rethinking the 'nature' of the household and community / Brian Greenberg, Margaret E. Greene
- Spillovers, subdivisions, and flows: questioning the usefulness of 'bounded container' as the dominant spatial metaphor in demography / John W. Adams, Alice B. Kasakoff
- Situating migration in wartime and post-war Mozambique: a critique of 'forced migration' research / Stephen C. Lubkemann.