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Names, Ethnicity and Populations: Tracing Identity in Space (Advances in Spatial Science)
Pablo Mateos
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Hardcover. Names, Ethnicity and Populations Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 269 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, 27 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBD; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 240 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
Ethnicity has become one of the most studied human dimensions in social and biomedical sciences over the past decade. However, there are important shortcomings in the means available to researchers to define and classify human group difference in past, as well as contemporary populations. Personal naming conventions usually adhere to unwritten social norms and customs that with time end up producing distinctive cultural, ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographic patterns in name distributions. This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic and geographic origins in contemporary population ... Read more
Ethnicity has become one of the most studied human dimensions in social and biomedical sciences over the past decade. However, there are important shortcomings in the means available to researchers to define and classify human group difference in past, as well as contemporary populations. Personal naming conventions usually adhere to unwritten social norms and customs that with time end up producing distinctive cultural, ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographic patterns in name distributions. This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic and geographic origins in contemporary population ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Spatial Science
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642454127
SKU
V9783642454127
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99-15
About Pablo Mateos
Dr. Pablo Mateos is Associate Professor at the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico. He was Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom (2008-2012), where he currently holds an Honorary Lectureship. He obtained a PhD in Social Geography at the University of London (2007). At ... Read more
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