Sociocultural anthropology's encounters with large public data sets: The case of the Spanish Municipal Register

Caroline H. Bledsoe

doi:10.1177/1463499610365376

Sociocultural anthropology's encounters with large public data sets: The case of the Spanish Municipal Register

Caroline H. Bledsoe

Anthropology

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This article asks how socioculturally inspired questions can be illuminated by exploiting large demographic data sets. Focusing on people represented in the annually updated Spanish Municipal Register (the Padrón Municipal) who report themselves as citizens of countries outside Spain, it treats demographic numbers as texts that can speak to us as plainly as words about something as challenging as the dynamics of identity and belonging.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	103-111
Number of pages	9
Journal	Anthropological Theory
Volume	10
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499610365376
State	Published - Mar 2010

Keywords

Africa
Gambia
Spain
census
citizenship
demography
migration
numerical data
vital register

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anthropology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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