Indigenous Peoples and Demography

Indigenous Peoples and Demography

Contents

Contents

List of Maps and Figures

List of Maps and Figures

List of Tables

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Introduction

1: Fractional Identities: The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians

1: Fractional Identities: The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians

2: Building Ethnic Boundaries in New Zealand: Representations of Maori Identity in the Census

2: Building Ethnic Boundaries in New Zealand: Representations of Maori Identity in the Census

3: Counting Indians: Census Categories in Late Colonial and Early Republican Spanish America

3: Counting Indians: Census Categories in Late Colonial and Early Republican Spanish America

4: The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

4: The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

5: The Aboriginal Population and the 1891 Census of Canada

5: The Aboriginal Population and the 1891 Census of Canada

6: ‘In the National Registry, All People Are Equal’: Sami in Swedish Statistical Sources

6: ‘In the National Registry, All People Are Equal’: Sami in Swedish Statistical Sources

7: The Registers of the ‘Sami Tax’ from 1600 to 1750, and Their Usefulness for Reconstructing Population Development and Settlement in Northern Nordland, Norway

7: The Registers of the ‘Sami Tax’ from 1600 to 1750, and Their Usefulness for Reconstructing Population Development and Settlement in Northern Nordland, Norway

8: Viewing Ethnicity from the Perspective of Individuals and Households: Finnmark during the Late Nineteenth Century

8: Viewing Ethnicity from the Perspective of Individuals and Households: Finnmark during the Late Nineteenth Century

9: Finn in Flux: ‘Finn’ as a Category in Norwegian Population Censuses of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

9: Finn in Flux: ‘Finn’ as a Category in Norwegian Population Censuses of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

10: Testing and Constructing Ethnicity Variables in Late Nineteenth-Century Censuses

10: Testing and Constructing Ethnicity Variables in Late Nineteenth-Century Censuses

11: Out of the Backwater? Prospects for Contemporary Sami Demography in Norway

11: Out of the Backwater? Prospects for Contemporary Sami Demography in Norway

12: The Mystery of the Magnate Reindeer Herders: Household Structure and Economy among Lake Essei Iakuts, 1926/7

12: The Mystery of the Magnate Reindeer Herders: Household Structure and Economy among Lake Essei Iakuts, 1926/7

13: Microdemographics and Indigenous Identity in the Central Taimyr Lowlands

13: Microdemographics and Indigenous Identity in the Central Taimyr Lowlands

14: Russian Legal Concepts and the Demography of Indigenous Peoples

14: Russian Legal Concepts and the Demography of Indigenous Peoples

15: Indigenous Populations, Ethnicity and Demography in the Eastern Baltic Littoral in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

15: Indigenous Populations, Ethnicity and Demography in the Eastern Baltic Littoral in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

16: Who Are the British?

16: Who Are the British?

Epilogue: From Indigenous Demographics to an Indigenous Demography

Epilogue: From Indigenous Demographics to an Indigenous Demography

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Index

Index