Title Socio-political histories of Latin American statistics / Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, Andrés Estefane, Claudia Jorgelina Daniel, editors

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps Series Studies of the Americas Studies of the Americas. Contents Introduction / Claudia Jorgelina Daniel, Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, and Andrés Estefane -- The 'Philosophical Eye' and the 'Industrial Spy' : Statistical Thinking in South America After Independence -- Marcelo Somarriva and Andrés Estefane -- Mapping Numbers : Statistics, Cartography, and the Making of National Space in Brazil / Alexandre de Paiva Rio Camargo -- Portraits for an Exhibition : The Making of a Statistical Culture for Public Life in Mexico During the Time of the Dirección General de Estadística, 1882-1922 / Laura Cházaro García -- Ethnic Origin, Race, and Nation in the Argentine Censuses, 1869-1914 / Hernán Otero -- Loose Numbers : Political Centralisation and Statistical Fragmentation in Colombia, 1886-1930 / Victoria Estrada Orrego -- Socio-political History of Latin American Statistics : A Bibliographical Essay / Claudia Jorgelina Daniel, Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, and Andrés Estefane Summary This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Reflecting the influence of social constructivism in the social sciences, it sheds new light on the historical emergence and development of both statistical reasoning and practices within a region traditionally seen as a passive consumer of foreign-produced theories and methods. By analysing the early enthusiasm for enumerating reality and the processes of institutionalisation of statistics in different national spaces, from Mexico to the Southern Cone, these studies show the ways in which Latin America adapted and used this modern tool of government and social classification to build political regimes and scientific arenas. The volume offers valuable insights into the divergent regional trajectories of this discipline, advancing towards an understanding of statistics and its past from a truly global perspective Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK, and Adjunct Researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Politicas Publicas, Argentina. Andres Estefane is an independent researcher based in Santiago, Chile; he received his Ph.D. in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Claudia Jorgelina Daniel is Adjunct Researcher at CONICET based in the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Description based on print version record Subject Social sciences -- Statistical methods. Statistics -- Latin America Politics and government Social sciences -- Statistical methods Statistics SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government -- Statistics Subject Latin America Genre/Form Statistics Form Electronic book Author Lanata-Briones, Cecilia T., editor Estefane, Andrés, editor. Daniel, Claudia Jorgelina, editor ISBN 9783030877149 3030877140

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