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Ethnicity, Inc

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ISBN-10: 0226114724

ISBN-13: 9780226114729

Edition: 2009

Authors: John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff

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InEthnicity, Inc.anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland's efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; a chiefdom made into a global business by means of its…    
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Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.748

Jean and John L. Comaroff are Professors of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, Fellows ofthe Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Honorary Professors at the University of Cape Town. They are editors most recently of Law and Disorder in the Postcolony (University of Chicago Press 2006), and are currently working on a new book, Ethnicity, Inc.

Prologue
Three or Four Things about Ethno-futures
Questions of Theory
Commodifying Descent, American-style
A Tale of Two Ethnicities
Nationality, Inc., Divinity, Inc., and Other Futures
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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