| Description |
231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society ; 1982 |
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Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society ; 1982
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| Contents |
Introduction: Alternatives to extinction / David Maybury-Lewis -- Ethicity : what data and theory portend for plural societies / Leo A. Despres -- The cultural future of the Andean majority / John V. Murra -- "Plural society" and cultural pluralism in Brazil / Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira -- Toward a conceptualization of power in Amazonian Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten, Jr. -- The symbolics of urban migration / Edward M. Bruner -- Problems in conceptualizing cultural pluralism, with illustrations from Somar, Oman / Fredrik Barth -- Yizu of Liang Shan, past and present / Lin Yueh-Hwa -- Hazarawal : formation and structure of district ethnicity in Pakistan / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Particularism and universalism in religious and ethnic identities : Malay Islam and other cases / Judith Nagata -- Coping with ethnic diversity : a South Asian perspective / T.N. Madan -- The nature and variety of plural unity / M.G. Smith -- The three modes of nationalism / Peter Worsley -- International protection against genocide in plural societies / Leo Kuper -- Conclusion: Living in Leviathan : ethnic groups and the state / David Maybury-Lewis |
| Notes |
"Papers ... originally presented at the plenary sessions of the American Ethnological Society's annual meeting, held in Lexington, Kentucky, in April 1982"--Foreword |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Congresses.
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Cultural pluralism -- Congresses.
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Ethnicity -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Maybury-Lewis, David.
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American Ethnological Society.
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| LC no. |
84002924 |
| ISBN |
0942976045 (paperback) |
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