Categories and contexts anthropological and historical studies in critical demography

Demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Szreter, Simon
Corporate Author: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Other Authors: Sholkamy, Hania, Dharmalingam, A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004, 2004
Series:International studies in demography / International studies in demography
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:Demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume questions these fixed categories
Item Description:Papers from the IUSSP seminar in Cairo, September 1999
Physical Description:xv, 407 p.
ISBN:9780191600883