Socio-political histories of Latin American statistics / Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, Andrés Estefane, Claudia Jorgelina Daniel, editors.
Lanata-Briones, Cecilia T., editor.; Estefane, Andrés, editor.; Daniel, Claudia Jorgelina, editor.
2022
HA29
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Title Socio-political histories of Latin American statistics / Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, Andrés Estefane, Claudia Jorgelina Daniel, editors.
ISBN 9783030877149 (electronic bk.)
3030877140 (electronic bk.)
9783030877132
3030877132
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87714-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-87714-9 doi
Call Number HA29
Dewey Decimal Classification 300.72/7
Summary This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Reflecting the influence of social constructivism in the social sciences, it sheds new light on the historical emergence and development of both statistical reasoning and practices within a region traditionally seen as a passive consumer of foreign-produced theories and methods. By analysing the early enthusiasm for enumerating reality and the processes of institutionalisation of statistics in different national spaces, from Mexico to the Southern Cone, these studies show the ways in which Latin America adapted and used this modern tool of government and social classification to build political regimes and scientific arenas. The volume offers valuable insights into the divergent regional trajectories of this discipline, advancing towards an understanding of statistics and its past from a truly global perspective. Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK, and Adjunct Researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Politicas Publicas, Argentina. Andres Estefane is an independent researcher based in Santiago, Chile; he received his Ph.D. in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Claudia Jorgelina Daniel is Adjunct Researcher at CONICET based in the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Added Author Lanata-Briones, Cecilia T., editor.
Estefane, Andrés, editor.
Daniel, Claudia Jorgelina, editor.
Series Studies of the Americas.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Back to color Ethnic Origins, Race and Nation in Argentine Censuses
Chapter 3: Statistics, regionalization and the rise of the dimension of the national in Brazil
Chapter 4: Reckoning the might of the Republic: Official statistics and population in Colombia, 1886-1936
Chapter 5: Antonio Penafiel, a physician collecting statistical figures to create a statistical culture for Mexican public life
Chapter 6: The Caribbean Crucible. How the colonial experience shaped statistical practices in the French Caribbean
Chapter 7: The Statistics on the Old French Colony of Guadalupe from the nineteenth century to the interwar period
Chapter 8: Counting Before the Nations. Statistics and Enlightenment in South America.

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