Signifying identities : anthropological perspectives on boundaries and contested values / edited by Anthony P. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Anthony P. (Anthony Paul), 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Congresses.

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology)--Congresses.

Identity (Psychology).

Boundaries--Congresses.

Boundaries.

Social groups--Congresses.

Social groups.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 178 pages : facsimile ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

"Signifying Identities" examines the ways in which relations between national, ethnic, religious and gender groups are underpinned by each group's perceptions of their distinctive identities and of the nature of the boundaries which divide them. Questions of frontier and identity are theorized with reference to the Maori, Australian aborigines and Celtic groups. The theoretical arguments and ethnographic perspectives presented in these essays place this collection at the cutting edge of contemporary anthropological scholarship on identity, with respect to the study of ethnicity, nationalism, localism, gender and indigenous people.

Notes:

"All the chapters published here, apart from the editor's, originated as plenary lectures to the 1996 conference, 'Boundaries and Identities', which was held to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415192374

0415192382

OCLC:

41311239