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Everlasting Countdowns : Race, Ethnicity and National Censuses in Latin American States.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (349 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781443846462 1443846465 9781443841498 1443841498 9781299645318 1299645313 |