Article ID: CBB117466199

Counting the Population and the Wealth in an “Unruly” Land: Census Making as a Social Process in Ottoman Kurdistan, 1830–50 (2020)

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This article examines the earliest modern Ottoman censuses in Kurdistan in the mid-nineteenth century from a social history perspective. Echoing the efforts of its contemporaries, the Ottoman state set out to conduct its first modern population census in 1830. This early census reflected the state’s aims for standardization and centralization, yet it was conducted “successfully” only in provinces geographically close to the capital. In Kurdistan, a border area controlled by ancient Kurdish chiefdoms and tribes, the census remained a herculean task for over four decades. Following recent society-centered views of global census history, this article approaches the modern Ottoman census experience in this early period as a social process rather than a top down enterprise. It argues that what determined the content, structure, and the format of these early censuses was not the discussions in the meeting rooms of the Ottoman imperial bureaucracy but social encounters between local and central, state and nonstate actors situated in the locality.

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Authors & Contributors
Steven Ruggles
Gibson, Catherine
Diana L Magnuson
Forret, Jeff
Kaat Louckx
Gourdon, Vincent
Concepts
Demography; population research
Social sciences
Census tabulation
Science and government
Statistics
Applied statistics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
France
England
United States
Russia
Southern states (U.S.)
Peru
Institutions
Société de Statistique de Paris
United States. Census Bureau
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