| Description |
ix, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture and society |
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Contents |
1. What is ethnicity? -- The term itself -- Ethnicity, race and nation -- Ethnicity and class -- The current concern with ethnicity -- From tribe to ethnic group -- What is ethnicity? -- 'Kinds' of ethnic relations? -- Analytical concepts and 'native' concepts -- 2. Ethnic classification: us and them -- The ecology of the city -- The melting-pot metaphor -- Communicating cultural difference -- Stereotyping -- Folk taxonomies, social distance -- Dichotomisation and complementarisation -- Ethnic stigma -- Negotiating identity -- Ethnicity for the individual -- What are the criteria for ethnicity? -- 3. The social organisation of cultural distinctiveness -- Ascription as a decisive feature of ethnicity -- Boundary maintenance -- Boundary transcendence -- Degrees of ethnic incorporation -- Ethnicity as resource competition -- Levels of ethnicity -- The theory of plural societies -- Ethnicity and rank -- The interrelationship between criteria -- Some controversies |
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4. Ethnic identify and ideology -- Order in the social universe -- Anomalies -- Entrepreneurs -- Analogic and digital; we and us -- The emergence of ethnic identities -- The creation of an ancestral identity -- History and ideology -- Social factors in identity processes -- Does European identity exist? -- What do identities do? -- 5. ethnicity in history -- The historical development of ethnic relations -- Expansions of system boundaries -- Capitalism -- 'Black' ethnogenesis -- Indians in new worlds -- 'Ethnic revitalisation': from people to a people -- Colonialism and migration -- The semantics of ethnic labelling -- Modern education and ethnic identity -- Ethnicity, history and culture -- Cultural history in ethnic identity |
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6. Nationalism -- The race to nation -- What is nationalism? -- The nation as a cultural community -- The political use of cultural symbols -- Nationalism and industrial society -- Communications technology and nationhood -- Nationalism as religion and metaphoric kinship -- The nation-state -- Nationalism against the state -- Nationalism and the other -- The problem of identity boundaries -- A non-ethnicnationalism? -- Nationalism and ethnicity reconsidered |
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7. Minorities and the state -- Minorities and majorities -- Minorities and the state -- The creation of minorities in the modern world -- Indigenous peoples -- Territorial conflict -- Stages in ethnogenesis -- Factors in indigenous ethnogenesis -- Urban minorities -- Boundary processes -- Does culture matter among urban migrants? -- Identities and 'cultures' -- Ethnicity in the US: race, class and language -- The paradox of multiculturalism -- Public controversies over culture -- minorities and modernity -- 8. That which is not ethnic -- Changes in social theory -- Changes in the social world -- Globalisation and localisation -- Identities and loyalties -- Gender and ethnicity -- Beyond ethnicity? -- The end of ethnicity? -- The eye of the beholder |
| Analysis |
Race relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and index |
| Subject |
Ethnic groups.
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Ethnicity.
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Nationalism.
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| LC no. |
93004484 |
| ISBN |
0745307000 |
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0745307019 |
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