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Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography (International Studies in Demography)

By Simon Szreter , Hania Sholkamy , A. Dharmalingam

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0199270570, 9780199270576, 9780191533693
LCC
HB849 .C38 2004
Open Library ID
OL22582446M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2083207 bytes)
Pages
424\424
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 analyze 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 such categories had their provenance, and, second, it reassesses their uncritical applications over space and time in a diverse range of empirical case studies, encouraging throughout a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue involving anthropologists, demographers, historians, and sociologists.

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