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Cairo, Egypt, September 15-18,
1999
Co-sponsored by the IUSSP Committee on Anthropological Demography and the New Arab
Demography Project of the Social Research Centre of the American university in Cairo
Provisional Programme
Opening
Anthony Carter, Chair of the IUSSP Committee on Anthropological
Demography
Hoda Rashad, Director of the Social Research of the American university in Cairo
Session 1: Social categories in the production and consumption of population studies: Taking stock of populations; identity and the creation (or destruction) of nations
National identity and its relevance in population studies in China
Hao Yan
Towards a Soviet order of things: census categories, border
demarcation and the making of the Soviet union
Francine R. Hirsch
A comparative history and analysis of racial categorisation in
American and Brazilian censuses
Melissa Nobles
Historicity and the reframing of social categories: the case of
Iraq's population under siege
Soheir Morsy
Session 2: Classifications and the creation of communities
Membership lists in four Northeast Thailand villages
John Bryant & Aree Prohmmo
Household registration, registered households and micro-social
structure in contemporary China
Zhongwei Zhao
Session 3: Community and identity in history and contemporary society: the case of Egypt
Recording professions in population censuses 1846-48 in Egypt
Philippe Fargues
Community in upper Egypt
Reem Saad
Session 4: The historicity of social categories used in population studies. Linguistics and meaning: discourses on society and population
The linguistic construction of social and medical categories in the
work of the English general register office, 1837-1950
Eddy Higgs
The objectification of fertility: an historical outline of 19th and
early 20th century practices in Britain and India
Philip Kreager
Malthus' anti-rhetorical rhetoric, or, on the magical conversion of
the imaginary into the real
Charles L. Briggs
Categories: nature, meaning, function and implications
Saad Z. Nagi
Session 5: Discourses on health and fertility
In sickness and in sorcery: the social classifications of morbidity,
mortality and demography arising in the historical relations of colonial authorities and
Mekeo (Papua New Guinea) peoples, 1890-1998
Mark S. Mosko
The role of ethnicity
Allan G. Hill & Amy Ratcliffe
Making motherhood un(safe): some unofficial risks and unintended
consequences of safe motherhood programming
Denise M. Roth
Session 6: Migration flows and how we understand them
Gender and life-course mobility among Fulani in greater Accra,
Ghana: the inadequacies of voluntary/forced & permanent/temporary as categories of
migration
Yaa Oppong
The official invisibility on internal diaspora in Colombia
Santiago Villaceves
From places to flows: migration streams in demographic studies
John W. Adams & Alice Bee Kasakoff
Session 7: The ethnography of social categories: understanding sexuality
Male sexual health concerns in Orissa
Martine Collumbien
Compassionate marriage, sexual intimacy and fertility in modern
Mexico
Jennifer Hirsch
New approaches in studying young people's sexuality and reproductive
health behaviour: how can it be measured and tracked. A case study from Indonesia
Iwu Dwisetyani utomo
Session 8: A critical look at gender
Who is the head? An anthrodemographic perspective on female headed
households in Egypt
Iman Farid & Zeinab Khadr
Gender roles and women's status: what they mean to Hausa Muslim
women in Northern Nigeria
Elisha P. Renne
Social categories in the study of men
Axel Mundigo
Session 9: Health, fertility and family planning
The planned birth: a social category "with Chinese
characteristics"
Susan Greenhalgh
Categorising the need for family planning: a story of evolution
Laila El-Zeini
users, non-users, clients, or help seekers? Categories for
understanding the use of health services
Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer
Session 10: New directions: Panel Discussion on Youth
Youth Working Group of the Arab Demography Project
Session 11: Different ways of looking at population issues
Fertility transition in the Arab world
Hoda Rashad
Marital status and reproductive age group as the two categories in
population studies
Patel Tulsi
Demographies' ecological frontiers: rethinking the nature of the
household
Brian Greenberg & Margaret Greene
The contact organisers for this seminar within the Committee are Arunachalam Dharmalingam (dharma@waikato.ac.nz), Hania Sholkamy (hanias@pccairo.org), Simon Szreter (srss@joh.cam.ac.uk).
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