Categories and Contexts —— Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography

----- 类别与语境：批判人口学的人类学和历史研究

ISBN: 9780199270576 出版年：2004 页码：424 Oxford University Press

Foreword List of Contributors SECTION 1 THE HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEMOGRAPHY AND ITS CATEGORIES 1. Contextualising categories: towards a critical reflexive demography 2. Objectifying demographic identities 3. Malthus' Anti-Rhetorical Rhetoric, or, on the Magical Conversion of the Imaginary into the Real SECTION 2 CATEGORIES AS POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS 4. Editors' Introduction 5. The linguistic construction of social and medical categories in the work of the English General Register Office, 1837-1950 6. Racial / Color Categorization in US and Brazilian Censuses 7. Toward a Soviet Order of Things:The 1926 Census and the Making of the Soviet Union 8. Making up China's "Black population" 9. Internal diaspora and State imagination: Colombia's failure to envision a nation 10. Users, non-users, clients, and help-seekers: the use of categories in research on health behaviour 11. Etic and emic categories in male sexual health: a case study from Orissa SECTION 3 CONTEXTS AS CRITIQUES OF CATEGORIES 12. Editors' Introduction 13. Measuring the population of a northeast Thai village 14. 'Un noviazgo despues de ser casados': Companionate marriage, sexual intimacy, and the modern Mexican family 15. Gender Roles and Women's Status: What They Mean to Hausa Muslim Women in Northern Nigeria 16. Re-contextualizing the Female-Headed Household: Culture and Agency in Uganda 17. Demography's Ecological Frontier: Rethinking the 'Nature' of the Household and Community 18. Spillovers, subdivisions and flows: questioning the usefulness of 'bounded container' as the dominant metaphor in demography 19. Situating migration in wartime and post-war Mozambique: a critique of "forced migration" research Index