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Title Identity and affect : experiences of identity in a globalising world / edited by John R. Campbell and Alan Rew
Published London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages)
Series Anthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Contents Political economy of identity and affect / Alan Rew and John R. Campbell -- Constructing identities in nineteenth-century Colombo / R.L. Stirrat -- Responding to subordination : identity and change among south Indian Untouchable castes / David Mosse -- Feasting friends, eating enemies : amity and enmity in Kalauna / Michael W. Young -- States of anxiety : cultural identities and development management in East New Britain / Alan Rew -- Culture, social organisation and Asian identity : difference in urban East Africa / John R. Campbell -- Historicity and communality : narratives about the origins of the Italian 'community' in Britain / Anne-Marie Fortier -- 'An African Railwayman is a Railwayman' ... or the subject of the subject of the subject / Ralph Grillo -- Celebrating diverse identities : person, work and place in South Wales / Leonard Mars -- Organisation of development as an illness : about the metastasis of good intentions / Philip Quarles van Ufford
Summary Annotation When forces of globalisation and local culture converge, distinctive social habitats are created. Drawing on detailed case studies of South Asian, East African, Melanesian and European societies, Identity and Affect provides a contextual analysis of the formation and expression of local identities and of the affective self-constitution of social agents. The contributors examine in particular the growing fragmentation of social relations in these areas and the impact this is having on individuals and communities who, forced into an increasingly outward orientation, are initiating processes of cultural redefinition and social realignment. The different effects of colonialism on identity formation are examined in studies of communalism in Sri Lanka, untouchables in India, cargo cults in New Guinea and the substitution of food exchange for cannibalism in Kaluana. Focusing on Italians in London and south Asians in East Africa, the formation and experience of belonging to cultural diaspora is explored from the perspective of the individual and the social collectivity. The authors conclude with an exploration of some of the defining experiences of modernity, specifically how individuals in industrial capitalist societies have come to see their identity as dependent on modern forms of industrial, public sector work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnicity.
Group identity.
Acculturation
Social change.
Social Identification
Acculturation
Social Change
ethnicity.
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Acculturation
Ethnicity
Group identity
Social change
Ethnizität
Aufsatzsammlung
Gruppenidentität
Akkulturation
Kongress
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Groepen (sociologie)
Acculturatie.
Sociale verandering.
Form Electronic book
Author Campbell, John R., 1951- author.
Rew, Alan, 1942- author.
LC no. 98042633
ISBN 9781849640459
1849640459
0745314236
9780745314235
0585426171
9780585426174