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1 online resource (349 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Summary |
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 ... |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Table of contents; list of figures; list of tables; acknowledgments; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; chapter ten; contributors |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Latin America -- Politics and government.
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Latin America. |
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Politics and government. |
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Latin America -- Population.
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Population. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Kradolfer, Sabine.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Ferrandez, Luis Fernando Angosto. Everlasting Countdowns : Race, Ethnicity and National Censuses in Latin American States. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2012 9781443841498 |
ISBN |
9781443846462 (electronic book) |
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1443846465 (electronic book) |
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9781443841498 (Cloth) |
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1443841498 (Cloth) |
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9781299645318 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299645313 (MyiLibrary) |
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