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Ethnicity

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ISBN-10: 0192892746

ISBN-13: 9780192892744

Edition: 1996

Authors: John Hutchinson, Anthony D. Smith

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Although the term `ethnicity' is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and continent, and have played an important role in all societies. The sense of a common ethnicity remains a major focus of identification by individuals. Ethnic community and identity are often associated with conflict, particularly with political struggles in various parts of the world. However, there is no essential connection between ethnicity and conflict, and relations may in fact be peaceful and cooperative. This Oxford Reader includes extracts by all the major contributors to…    
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List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/26/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.43" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

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Introduction
Ethnicity and Minority Groups
History and Ethnicity
The Core Elements of Ethnicity
Ethnicity, Race, Class and Nation
The Origins of Ethnic Groups
Primordial Ties
The Poverty of Primordialism
The Inexpungeable Tie of Primordiality
Does Race Matter?
Ethnicity as Being, Doing and Knowing
Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries
Ethnicity and Politics
Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Identity Formation
Ethnicity and Rational Choice Theory
The Actor's Model of Ethnic Relations
Pre-modern Polyethnicity and Ethnic Homogeneity
The Ancient Greeks and their Nation
The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan
Archetypal Diasporas
Language and Ethnicity in Medieval Europe
Beyond the Melting Pot
Ethnicity and Social Change
Symbolic Ethnicity
The Making of Black Identities
The New Ethnicities
Fictive Ethnicity and Ideal Nation
Civic and Ethnic Nations in France and Germany
Old Tribes and Imposed Nation-States in the Middle East
Middlemen Minorities
Chosen Peoples
Religion and Ethnicity
Orthodoxy and Nationalism
Ethnic and Political Nations in Europe
Diaspora and Language
Symbolic Ethnicity and Language
The Creation of Ethnicity in South Africa
The Plural Society
Multiculturalism in Europe
The Idea of 'Race' in Modern China
Pan-Africanism and European Imperialism
The Aryan Myth and Biblical Universalism
Genocide and the Plural Society
The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust
Internal Colonialism
Ethnic Soldiers
Symbolic Politics and Ethnic Status
Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America
Ethnicity and Politics in Pakistan: The Baluch Case
The Politics of Ethnicity in India
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Democracy in South-East Asia
Women, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Diasporas and International Relations
Self-Determination as an International Issue
Conflict-Regulation in Deeply Divided Societies
Eliminating and Managing Ethnic Differences
Post-Soviet Ethnic Conflict and International Politics
From Ethnic to Civic Nationalism: English Canada and Quebec
Ethnic Nationalism in the Late Twentieth Century
Australia: Multi-Ethnic Community Without Nationalism?
The Post-Modern Revival of Ethnicity
Globalization and Ethno-Cultural Differences
Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Immigrant Societies
Notes
Select Bibliography
Biographical Notes
Source Acknowledgements
Index