Disciplining anthropological demography

Coast, Ernestina; Hampshire, Kate; Randall, Sara

doi:10.4054/demres.2007.16.16

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“…As Caldwell explained in a 1987 piece, BUnfortunately, anthropologists and demographers have been most attracted by each other's most speculative, largest-scale, and least secure evidence^(p. 34). Nonetheless, since the 1980s, a number of scholars have attempted to work across these disciplinary divides and to draw insights from critical scholarship in each (see, for example, Basu and Aaby 1998;Bledsoe 2002;Caldwell et al 1987;Coast et al 2007;Greenhalgh 1995;Johnson-Hanks 2002;Setel 1999;Szreter et al 2004).…”

Section: Across the Epistemological Dividementioning

confidence: 98%

Category and Kin in “Crisis”: Representations of Kinship, Care, and Vulnerability in Demographic and Ethnographic Research in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Reynolds

2015

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Drawing together 10 years of surveillance data on and material gathered through ethnographic engagements with a small group of 20 young people and families, the article interrogates tensions and complementarities in the ways in which divergent research modalities come to represent kinship, family life, and changing forms of child vulnerability over time. The article begins by drawing out some of the tensions between demographic and ethnographic modes of inquiry, exploring the divergent objects and values of each. The focus then shifts from these broader epistemological debates to explore the life of a selected Bcase^as it unfolds within both a demographic database and through ethnographic research in one locality in South Africa. To resolve the tensions between these perspectives, the article concludes that we must move beyond a focus on empirical divergences between forms of research representation. Rather, we must develop more rigorous methodologies for critical, comparative, Bmulti-sited^analyses of forms of experience and local-life worlds. Understanding the divergent insights that can be gained through different modes of inquiry, and the ways in which they shape and are shaped by everyday experiences in locality, is essential to coming to terms with contemporary forms of governance and everyday life.

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Section: Across the Epistemological Dividementioning

confidence: 98%

Category and Kin in “Crisis”: Representations of Kinship, Care, and Vulnerability in Demographic and Ethnographic Research in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Reynolds

2015

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“…Thus, even if the researcher has no ambition to conduct a mixed-method project that includes qualitative data collection, he or she will often need to draw upon insights from qualitative research to design the surveys appropriately. (For comprehensive discussions on the integration of surveys and qualitative data in demography, see Coast, Hampshire, and Randall 2007;Randall and Koppenhaver 2004;and Schatz 2012. ) Conducting a survey is no guarantee that the researcher will reap the potential benefits of collecting individual-level information; it simply opens up opportunities.…”

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Measuring remittances through surveys

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“…Instead of a large, representative sample, we present a set of very detailed narratives from one particular group, in order to understand the meanings, processes and motivations behind apparently anomalous demographic trends. We situate our work within the growing field of European anthropological demography (Bernardi and Hutter, 2008;Coast et al, 2007), that seeks to bring ethnographic insights from qualitative research to understand demographic patterns and trends.…”

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Navigating New Socio-Demographic Landscapes: Using Anthropological Demography to Understand the ‘Persistence’ of High and Early Fertility Among British Pakistanis

2011

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Citation for published item:rmpshireD uFF nd flellD wFF nd impsonD fF @PHIPA 9xvigting new soioEdemogrphi lndspes X using nthropologil demogrphy to understnd the persistene9 of high nd erly fertility mong fritish kistnisF9D iuropen journl of popultion G evue europ¡ eenne de h¡ emogrphieD PV @IAF ppF QWETQF Further information on publisher's website: httpXGGdxFdoiForgGIHFIHHUGsIHTVHEHIIEWPSPEz Publisher's copyright statement:The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This study contributes to the emerging 'inter-discipline' of anthropological demography, which offers important insights into population processes that neither discipline can do alone.

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Disciplining anthropological demography

Cited by 28 publications

References 71 publications

Category and Kin in “Crisis”: Representations of Kinship, Care, and Vulnerability in Demographic and Ethnographic Research in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Category and Kin in “Crisis”: Representations of Kinship, Care, and Vulnerability in Demographic and Ethnographic Research in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Measuring remittances through surveys

Navigating New Socio-Demographic Landscapes: Using Anthropological Demography to Understand the ‘Persistence’ of High and Early Fertility Among British Pakistanis

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