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From: Raymond Gervais
List Editor: Harold Marcus <ethiopia@hs1.hst.msu.edu>
Editor's Subject: TOC: _Cahiers quebecois de demographie_
Author's Subject: TOC: _Cahiers quebecois de demographie_
Date Written: Tue, 10 Dec 1996
Date Posted: Wed, 10 Dec 1996 13:26:48 -0500

                <gervaisr@total.net>

Your subcribers may be interested in the following item:

The "Cahiers quebecois de demographie" - a French language
population journal published in Quebec, Canada - will be
launching its Volume 25 number 1 issue next January.
Its theme is:

Demographic Knowledge and the Practice of Power in the
Third World: Historical Perspectives

All articles are in French but have English and Spanish
abstracts.

The Table of Contents reflects a broad spectrum of
regions and interest:

Presentation: Francis Gendreau

Michel CARTIER: Population Recording and Censuses:
The Chinese Tradition. [Enregistrement de la population
et recensement. La tradition chinoise]

Roland LARDINOIS: Rumblings, Resistance and Rebellion:
The Implementation of Censuses in Colonial India (18-20th
Century). [Rumeurs, resistances, rebellions: la mise en
place des recensements dans l'Inde coloniale (XVIIIe-
XXe siecles)]

Robert H. JACKSON: The Creation and Changing Definition
of Demographic Knowledge: The Case of Mestizaje in the
Corporate Indigenous Communities on the Valle Bajo of
Cochabamba, Bolivia. [Naissance et metamorphoses du
savoir demographique: le mestizaje des communautes
indigenes de la Valle Bajo de Cochabamba, en Bolivie]

Raymond R. GERVAIS: The Colonial State and Demographic
Knowledge in French West Africa, 1904-1960. [Etat colonial
et savoir demographique en AOF, 1904-1960]

Yolande PELCHAT: Demographic Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa:
The Ambiguity of "Cultural" Explanations. [Expliquer les
tendances demographiques en Afrique subsaharienne:
les ambiguites du recours a la "culture"].

More information, including a leaflet with French
abstracts, can be obtained by writing to:

Cahier quebecois de demographie
C.P. 403, succ. Cote-des-Neiges
Montreal, Qc  H3S 2S7
Canada

or by sending me an e-mail at:
gervaisr@total.net

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