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• Title:Categories and contexts : anthropological and historical studies in critical demography / edited by Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy, A. Dharmalingam.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Szreter, Simon.
  Sholkamy, Hania.
  Dharmalingam, A.
  International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HB849 .C38 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Demography--Congresses.
  
• Description:xv, 407 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:International studies in demography.
  
• Notes:Papers from the IUSSP seminar on social categories in population research, Cairo, Egypt, 15-18 September 1999.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0199270570 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Record of Papers and Participants at the IUSSP Seminar on Social Categories in Population Research, Cairo, Egypt, 15-18 September 1999
  Pt. I. Historical Anthropology of Demography and Its Categories
  1. Contextualizing Categories: Towards A Critical Reflexive Demography / Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy and A. Dharmalingam
  2. Objectifying Demographic Identities / Philip Kreager
  3. Malthus' Anti-Rhetoric Rhetoric, or, on the Magical Conversion of the Imaginary into the Real / Charles L. Briggs
  Pt. II. Categories as Political Interventions
  4. Editors' Introduction / Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy and A. Dharmalingam
  5. Linguistic Construction of Social and Medical Categories in the Work of the English General Register Office, 1837-1950 / Edward Higgs
  6. Racial/Colour Categorization in US and Brazilian Censuses / Melissa Nobles
  7. Towards a Soviet Order of Things: The 1926 Census and the Making of the Soviet Union / Francine Hirsch
  8. Making up China's 'Black Population' / Susan Greenhalgh
  9. Internal Diaspora and State Imagination: Colombia's Failure to Envision a Nation / Santiago Villaveces-Izquierdo
  10. Users, Non-users, Clients, and Help-seekers: The Use of Categories in Research on Health Behaviour / Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer
  11. Etic and Emic Categories in Male Sexual Health: A Case Study from Orissa / Martine Collumbien, Nabesh Bohidar, Ram Das, Braj Das and Pertti Pelto
  Pt. III. Contexts as Critiques of Categories
  12. Editors' Introduction / Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy and A. Dharmalingam
  13. Measuring the Population of a Northeast Thai Village / Aree Prohmmo and John Bryant
  14. 'Un noviazgo despues de ser casados': Companionate Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and the Modern Mexican Family / Jennifer S. Hirsch
  15. Gender Roles and Women's Status: What They Mean to Hausa Muslim Women in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
  16. Re-contextualizing the Female-headed Household: Culture and Agency in Uganda / Paula Jean Davis
  17. Demography's Ecological Frontier: Rethinking the 'Nature' of the Household and Community / Brian Greenberg and Margaret E. Greene
  18. Spillovers, Subdivisions, and Flows: Questioning the Usefulness of 'Bounded Container' as the Dominant Spatial Metaphor in Demography / John W. Adams and Alice B. Kasakoff
  19. Situating Migration in Wartime and Post-war Mozambique: A Critique of 'Forced Migration' Research / Stephen C. Lubkemann.