Making Sense of the Census: Classifying and Counting Ethnicity in Oceania, 1965-2011

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Making Sense of the Census: Classifying and Counting Ethnicity in Oceania, 1965-2011

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As the flagship government effort to count and classify its population, censuses are a key site for rendering and making visible group boundaries. Despite claims to objective rationality, however, census taking is a political and inherently subjective exercise. Censuses help shape the very categories they claim to capture: censuses do more than reflect social reality, they also participate in the social construction of this reality (Kertzer and Arel, 2002b, p. 2). While ethnicity – as a socia...

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Thesis

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Masters

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2013

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Broman, Patrick David

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8442

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Ethnicity / Census / Oceania

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