Census and identity
Subtitle: the politics of race, ethnicity, and language in national census
By: edited by David I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel
Contributors: Kertzer, David I., 1948-; Arel, Dominique, 1947-
Series: New perspectives on anthropological and social demography
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Brand: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Census -- Methodology -- Case studies; Race -- Case studies; Ethnicity -- Case studies; Linguistic demography -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power / David I. Kertzer, Dominique Arel; title: Racial categorization and censuses / Melissa Nobles; title: Ethnic categorizations in censuses : comparative observations from Israel, Canada, and the United States / Calvin Goldscheider; title: Language categories in censuses : backward- or forward-looking? / Dominique Arel; title: Resistance to identity categorization in France / Alain Blum; title: On counting, categorizing, and violence in Burundi and Rwanda / Peter Uvin; title: Identity counts : the Soviet legacy and the census in Uzbekistan / David Abramson