Counting Populations, Understanding Societies Towards a Interpretative Demography /

The core aim of this book is to determine how anthropology and demography can be used in conjunction in the field of population and development. The boundaries of demography are not as clearly defined or as stable as one might think, especially in view of the tension between a formal demography cent...

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Main Author: Petit, Vřonique. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development ; 1
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5046-3
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. EPISTEMOLOGY IN DEMOGRAPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
  • Chapter 2. THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A WILD SCIENCE
  • Chapter 3. THE CONTOURS OF A SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Chapter 4. AN OBJECT CALLED POPULATION
  • Chapter 5. DEMOGRAPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY: A RETURN TO THE ORIGINS
  • Chapter 6. THE PRACTICES OF COMPREHENSIVE DEMOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 7. SOME UNRESOLVED ISSUES 154
  • APPENDIX. THE CONTEMPORARY ACTORS OF FRENCH DEMOGRAPHY.-Bibliography.