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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821850303321

Titolo

Everlasting countdowns [[electronic resource] ] : race, ethnicity and national censuses in Latin American states / / edited by Luis Fernando Angosto Ferrandez and Sabine Kradolfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-4438-4646-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FerrandezLuis Fernando Angosto

KradolferSabine

Disciplina

320.98

Soggetti

Census

Race

Indigenous peoples - Latin America

Latin America Population

Latin America Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

Politics, not demographics, is at the core of this book on censuses. The contributors to this volume once and for all remove the fig-leaves from census-making by historicising and contextualising a type of statistical practice that has become essential for the functioning (and understanding) of the contemporary state. The book includes superb cross-disciplinary studies on ethnic and racial census categorisation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Peru and Venezuela (a...