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Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives Third Edition

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ISBN-10: 0745330428

ISBN-13: 9780745330426

Edition: 3rd 2010 (Enlarged)

Authors: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In this book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relationships. Drawing on a wide range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and nationhood and more in a lucid and comprehensive manner.A core text for all students of social anthropology and related subjects, Ethnicity…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 9/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and the Free University of Amsterdam. He is author of numerous works including Ethnicity and Nationalism, Small Places - Large Issues, Common Denominators and Engaging Anthropology.

Series Preface
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
What is Ethnicity?
The term itself
Ethnicity and race
Ethnicity, nation and class
The current concern with ethnicity
From tribe to ethnic group
So what is ethnicity?
Kinds of ethnic relations
Analytical concepts and 'native' concepts
Ethnic Classification: Us and Them
The ecology of the city
The melting-pot metaphor
Communicating cultural difference
Stereotyping
Folk taxonomies and social distance
Contrasting and matching
Ethnic stigma
Negotiating identity
Ethnicity from the individual's point of view
Criteria for ethnicity
The Social Organisation of Cultural Distinctiveness
Ascription as a decisive feature of ethnicity
Boundary maintenance
Boundary transcendence and fluidity
Degrees of ethnic incorporation
Ethnicity as resource competition
Levels of ethnic incorporation
The theory of plural societies
Ethnicity and hierarchy
The interrelationship between criteria
Instrumentalism and its critics
A problem of culture
Ethnic Identification and Ideology
Order in the social universe
Anomalies
Entrepreneurs
Analog and digital; we and us
The emergence of ethnic identities
The creation of an ancestral identity
History and ideology
Genetics, kinship and ethnicity
Social factors in identity processes
Is a European identity conceivable?
What do identities do?
Ethnicity in History
The historical development of ethnic relations
Expansions of system boundaries
Capitalism and individualisation
The label 'black identity'
Indians in new worlds
Ethnic revitalisation: from people to a people
Colonialism and migration
The power of naming
Modern education and ethnic identity
Ethnicity, history and culture
History and myth
Nationalism
The race to nation
What is nationalism?
The nation as a cultural community
The political use of cultural symbols
Nationalism and industrial society
Communication technology and nationhood
Nationalism as metaphoric kinship
The nation-state
Nationalism against the state
Nationalism and the Other
The problem of identity boundaries
Nationalism without ethnicity?
Nationalism and ethnicity reconsidered
Minorities and the State
Minorities and majorities
Minorities and the state
The creation of minorities in the modern world
Indigeneity
Territorial conflict
Stages in ethnogenesis
Factors in indigenous ethnogenesis
Immigrant minorities
Boundaries and hybridity
Culture and economics among migrants
Identities and culture
Ethnicity in the US: race, class and language
Minorities and modernity
Identity Politics, Culture and Rights
Dilemmas of ethnic diversity
Multiculturalism and its critics
Beyond the standard paradigm of nation-building
Embedded discourses about culture and pluralism
Struggles over cultural identity and social integration
Diaspora and hybridity
Transnationalism and long-distance nationalism
The modernity of Hindutva
Some generic features of identity politics
The Non-Ethnic
Globalisation
Social theory and the postmodern world
Changes in the world of intergroup relations
Globalisation and localisation
Identities and loyalties
Gender, ethnicity and nationhood
Beyond ethnicity?
The end of ethnicity?
The eye of the beholder
Bibliography
Index