I. Kertzer / Dominique Arel (eds.)

Census and Identity

The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses
Herausgeber: Arel, Dominique; Kertzer, David I.; Hogan, Dennis P.

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how states pigeon-hole people within categories of race, ethnicity and language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780521004275
• ISBN-10: 0521004276
• Artikelnr.: 22381762

Autorenporträt

David Kertzer is Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Anthropology and History, Brown University. He was National Book Award Finalist for The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and is the author of Politics and Symbols (1996), Sacrificed for Honor (1993), Ritual Politics and Power (1988), Comrades and Christians (1980), and several other books. Among his recent edited books are Anthropological Demography (with Tom Fricke, 1997) and Aging the Past (with Peter Laslett (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power David
I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel; 2. Racial categorization in censuses Melissa
Nobles; 3. Ethnic categorization in censuses: comparative observations from
Israel, Canada, and the United States Calvin Goldscheider; 4. Language
categories in censuses: backward- or forward-looking? Dominique Arel; 5.
The debate on resisting identity categorization in France Alain Blum; 6. On
counting, categorizing, and violence in Burundi and Rwanda Peter Uvin; 7.
Identity counts: the Soviet legacy and the census in Uzbekistan David
Abramson.