ISBN:
0199270570
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 407 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
International studies in demography
Parallel Title:
Print version Categories and Contexts : Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography
DDC:
304.6
Keywords:
Demography Congresses
Abstract:
Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, 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 in two ways. First, it examines the historical and political circumstances in which suchcategories had their provenance, and, second, it reassesses their uncritical applications over space and time in a diverse
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Contributors; Record of Papers and Participants at the IUSSP Seminar on Social Categories in Population Research, Cairo, Egypt, 15-18 September 1999; List of Tables; PART I. THE HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEMOGRAPHY AND ITS CATEGORIES; PART II. CATEGORIES AS POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS; PART III. CONTEXTS AS CRITIQUES OF CATEGORIES; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Papers from the IUSSP seminar on social categories in population research, Cairo, Egypt, 15-18 September 1999
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0199270570.001.0001
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