Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps and Figures vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Fractional Identities: The Political Arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians 15
8. 2 Building Ethnic Boundaries in New Zealand: Representations of Maori Identity in the Census 33
9. 3 Counting Indians: Census Categories in Late Colonial and Early Republican Spanish America 55
10. 4 The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 73
11. 5 The Aboriginal Population and the 1891 Census of Canada 95
12. 6 ‘In the National Registry, All People Are Equal’: Sami in Swedish Statistical Sources 117
13. 7 The Registers of the ‘Sami Tax’ from 1600 to 1750, and Their Usefulness for Reconstructing Population Development and Settlement in Northern Nordland, Norway 135
14. 8 Viewing Ethnicity from the Perspective of Individuals and Households: Finnmark during the Late Nineteenth Century 149
15. 9 Finn in Flux: ‘Finn’ as a Category in Norwegian Population Censuses of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 163
16. 10 Testing and Constructing Ethnicity Variables in Late Nineteenth-Century Censuses 173
17. 11 Out of the Backwater? Prospects for Contemporary Sami Demography in Norway 185
18. 12 The Mystery of the Magnate Reindeer Herders: Household Structure and Economy among Lake Essei Iakuts, 1926/7 197
19. 13 Microdemographics and Indigenous Identity in the Central Taimyr Lowlands 219
20. 14 Russian Legal Concepts and the Demography of Indigenous Peoples 239
21. 15 Indigenous Populations, Ethnicity and Demography in the Eastern Baltic Littoral in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 253
22. 16 Who Are the British? 273
23. Epilogue: From Indigenous Demographics to an Indigenous Demography 295
24. Notes on Contributors 309
25. Index 313