The Imbalanced Sex Ratio and the High Bride Price
Watermarks of Race in Demography, Census, and the Colonial Regulation of Reproduction
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 5337702 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Alexandra Widmer (0000-0002-3013-7900, York University, Toronto, Canada, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2014 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 538-560 |
| Data de publicação | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243914523509 |
| OpenAlex | W2039606211 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 37 |
This article examines changes and continuities in the epistemic and methodological presence of "race" in British imperial demography from 1920 to 1960. It does so in relation to population-level interventions aimed at improving reproduction in the New Hebrides. Through an examination of the sex ratio in relation to debates about demographic decline, the article describes aspects of how sexual selection was connected to race thinking. Taking a balanced sex ratio as a marker of well-adapted, healthy populations-biologically and culturally-the British authorities in the New Hebrides attempted to regulate the bride price in an attempt to level the imbalanced sex ratio. They believed that this intervention would reduce the marriage age of men while also appeasing missionary agendas of changing marriage and kinship practices. I use the metaphor of a "watermark" to think through the conceptual and methodological absent/presence of race in colonial demography and colonial administrators' attitudes toward and interventions in local reproductive practices
Biology · Colonialism · Kinship · Metaphor · Political science · Population · Psychological intervention · Reproduction · Sex ratio · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Psychology · Ecology
Civilizing Women
Race to the Finish
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
Race, Ethnicity and Nation
Foreign Bodies
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
Maternities and Modernities
Fragile differences, relational effects
Ambiguities of Race
Demography as Policy Science in the British Empire, 1918–1969
Colonial desire
The colonial office and the population question in the British Empire, 1918–62
Carving up Population Science
Man and Animals in the New Hebrides
Racism and Human Genome Diversity Research
Demography and Degeneration
To save the girls for brighter and better lives’
The Effect on Native Races of Contact with European Civilisation
Variations in Sex Ratios as Indices of Racial Decline. A Short Summary of a Paper Read at the Melbourne Meeting of the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, Australia, 1923
The Retreat of Scientific Racism
Man and Animals in the New Hebrides
Making Sex
Oceanic Hauntings
Along the Archival Grain
The Retreat of Scientific Racism
The Respective Sex-Ratios of White and Coloured Races
The Relative Time of Fertilization of the Ovum and the Sex Ratio Amongst Jews1
Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics; or, A Contextualization of German Race Science
Statelessness, Citizenship and Annotated Discriminations
The Social Construction of Population Science
| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |