Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes

A Companion to the Anthropology of India

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 23-44

  Guilmoto, Christophe Z ^a  

^a Inserm   (France)

Author keywords

British, foraying into India's power structures new monitoring tools, as local surveys; Caste and class in liberal India demography for anthropologists, populations, castes and classes; Cultural geographers, finding it difficult using administrative toponyms, indicator of real regions; Dimension of Indian nuptiality patterns in demographic data, and village exogamy; Key sources, and tools India's population, rapid demographic and socioeconomic transformations; Labor intensive agriculture and nonagricultural activities urban labor market, acting as a brake on migration streams toward cities; Micro perspectives, justice to pace of change articulation with local social structures; Social boundaries, plurality, fluidity and ambiguity caste classification; Specific social interactions, populations and surveyors "statistical data" during survey; Statistical narrative in India less hegemonic, than usually thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885492246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390599.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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