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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.98
• Soggetto topico: Census; Race; Indigenous peoples - Latin America
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Population; Latin America Politics and government
• Altri autori: FerrandezLuis Fernando Angosto KradolferSabine
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Everlasting countdowns
• ISBN: 1-4438-4646-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786247003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II