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Agency, contingency and census process : observations of the 2006 Indigenous enumeration strategy in remote Aboriginal Australia /

"This study of the [Indigenous Enumeration Strategy] involved four very different locations: a group of small outstation communities (Arnhem Land), a large Aboriginal township (Wadeye), an 'open' town with a majority Aboriginal population (Fitzroy Crossing), and the minority Aborigina...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Authors: Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU E Press
Other Authors: Morphy, F. (Frances), 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, 2007.
Series:Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 28.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Producing powerful numbers
  • Preparing for the 2006 enumeration at the Darwin Census Management Unit
  • A vast improvement: the 2006 enumeration in the Alice Springs town camps
  • Mobility and its consequences: the 2006 enumeration in the north-east Arnhem Land region
  • Whose census? Institutional constraints on the Indigenous Enumeration Strategy at Wadeye
  • What sort of town is Fitzroy Crossing? Logistical and boundary problems of the 2006 enumeration in the southern Kimberley
  • After the count and after the fact: at the Darwin Census Management Unit
  • The transformation of input into output: at the Melbourne Data Processing Centre
  • Accommodating agency and contingency: towards an extended strategy for engagement
  • Appendix A. The 2006 Interviewer Household Form
  • Appendix B. Commentary on the 2006 Interviewer Household Form.