Research Catalog

Title

Census and identity : the politics of race, ethnicity, and language in national censuses / edited by David I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kertzer, David I., 1948-
• Arel, Dominique, 1947-

Description

xi, 210 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

New perspectives on anthropological and social demography

Subject

• Census > Methodology > Case studies
• Race > Case studies
• Ethnicity > Case studies
• Linguistic demography > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power / David I. Kertzer, Dominique Arel -- Racial categorization and censuses / Melissa Nobles -- Ethnic categorizations in censuses : comparative observations from Israel, Canada, and the United States / Calvin Goldscheider -- Language categories in censuses : backward- or forward-looking? / Dominique Arel -- Resistance to identity categorization in France / Alain Blum -- On counting, categorizing, and violence in Burundi and Rwanda / Peter Uvin -- Identity counts : the Soviet legacy and the census in Uzbekistan / David Abramson.

Call Number

JFE 02-3884

ISBN

• 0521808235
• 0521004276 (pbk.)

LCCN

2001037352

OCLC

47056400

Title

Census and identity : the politics of race, ethnicity, and language in national censuses / edited by David I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel.

Imprint

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Series

New perspectives on anthropological and social demography

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kertzer, David I., 1948-

Arel, Dominique, 1947-

Research Call Number

JFE 02-3884