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Indigenous Peoples and Demography

The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics
1. Aufl.

von: Per Axelsson, Peter Sköld
39,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.08.2011
ISBN/EAN:	9780857450036
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	354

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Titelbeschreibung

When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people. In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Australia. Using historical and demographical evidence, the contributors explore the creation and validity of categories for enumerating indigenous populations, the use and misuse of ethnic markers, micro-demographic investigations, and demographic databases, and thereby show how the situation varies substantially between countries.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Maps and, Tables Acknowledgements
 <a>Introduction</a> Per Axelsson and Peter Sköld
 Chapter 1. Fractional Identities: the Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians Len Smith, Janet McCalman, Ian Anderson, Sandra Smith, Joanne Evans, Gavan McCarthy and Jane Beer
 Chapter 2. Building Ethnic Boundaries in New Zealand: Representations of Maori Identity in the Census Tahu Kukutai 
 Chapter 3. Counting Indians: Census Categories in Late Colonial and Early Republican Spanish America Steinar A. Saether
 Chapter 4. The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century J. David Hacker and Michael Haines
 Chapter 5. The Aboriginal Population and the 1891 Census of Canada Michelle Hamilton and Kris Inwood
 Chapter 6. ‘In the national registry, all people are equal’ - Sami in Swedish statistical sources Per Axelsson
 Chapter 7. The Registers of the ‘Sami tax’ from 1600 to 1750, and their Usefulness for Reconstructing Population Development and Settlement Lars Ivar Hansen
 Chapter 8. Viewing Ethnicity From The Perspectives of The Individuals and Households – Finnmark During the Last Part of The Nineteenth Century Hilde L. Jåstad
 Chapter 9.. ‘Finn in Flux’: ‘finn’ as a Designation in Norwegian Population Censuses of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Bjørg Evjen
 Chapter 10. Testing and Constructing Ethnicity Variables in Late 19th Century Censuses Gunnar Thorvaldsen
 Chapter 11.  Out of the Backwater? Prospects for Contemporary Sami Demography in Norway Torunn Pettersen
 Chapter 12. Indigenous Household Structure And Economy Among Lake Essei Iakuts 1926/27: The Mystery Of The Magnate Reindeer Herders David G. Anderson
 Chapter 13. Ethnodemographics and Identity of Indigenous People in the Central Taimyr Lowlands John Ziker
 Chapter 14. Russian Legal Concepts And Indigenous Peoples Demography Sergey V. Sokolovskiy
 Chapter 15. Ethnic Identity and Indigenous Populations in the Demographic Sources of the Eastern Baltic Littoral: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Andrejs Plakans
 Chapter 16. Who are the British? John MacInnes
 Epilogue: From Indigenous Demographics to an Indigenous Demography Per Axelsson, Peter Sköld, John P. Ziker and David G. Anderson
 Index

Autorenportrait

Per Axelsson is a Senior Researcher of the Centre for Sami Research at Umeå University, Sweden and a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. His current research focus on a longitudinal study of colonization, state and the health of Indigenous Peoples in Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, 1850-2000. Recent publications include Global Environmental Change, Global Health Action and Dynamis. He co-chairs the network of Family/Demography within the European Social Science History Association.