Indigenous Peoples And Demography: The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people. In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Australia. Using historical and demographical evidence, the contributors explore the creation and validity of categories for enumerating indigenous populations, the use and misuse of ethnic markers, micro-demographic investigations, and demographic databases, and thereby show how the situation varies substantially between countries

11: Out of the Backwater? Prospects for Contemporary Sami Demography in Norway12: 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; 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; 16: Who Are the British?; Epilogue: From Indigenous Demographics to an Indigenous Demography; Notes on Contributors; Index.

When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorize, and differentiate indigenous people. In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers, and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans, and the United Kingdom. Using historical and demographical evidence, th