Categories and contexts [electronic resource] : anthropological and historical studies in critical demography / edited by Simon Szreter, Hania Sholkamy, A. Dharmalingam.
Series: International studies in demographyPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 407 p.)ISBN:- 0199270570
- 304.6 22
- HB849

Papers from the IUSSP seminar in Cairo, September 1999.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.