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Engaging cultural differences : the multicultural challenge in liberal democracies / Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus, editors.

Van Pelt Library HM1271 .E5 2002
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Shweder, Richard A.
Minow, Martha, 1954-
Markus, Hazel Rose.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism--Case studies.
Toleration.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:
xiv, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2002]
Contents:
Introduction: Engaging Cultural Differences / Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, Hazel Rose Markus 1
Part I One Nation, Many Cultures: Contested Practices and Group Status in Liberal Democracies 17
Chapter 1 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation But Were Afraid to Ask / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco 19
Chapter 2 Living with Multiculturalism: Universalism and Particularism in an Indian Historical Context / Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 43
Chapter 3 Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship Between Church and State in Germany and France / Katherine Pratt Ewing 63
Chapter 4 Civilizing the Natives: Customary Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa / David L. Chambers 81
Chapter 5 Immigrants, Agency, and Allegiance: Some Notes from Anthropology and from Law / Jane Maslow Cohen, Caroline Bledsoe 99
Chapter 6 Citizenship on Trial: Nadia's Case / Unni Wikan 128
Part II Cultural Accommodation and its Limits 145
Chapter 7 Accommodation and Coherence: in Search of a General Theory for Adjudicating Claims of Faith, Conscience, and Culture / Arthur N. Eisenberg 147
Chapter 8 The Free Exercise of Culture: Some Doubts and Distinctions / Lawrence G. Sager 165
Chapter 9 The Culture of Property / Nomi Stolzenberg 177
Chapter 10 In Defense of Culture in the Courtroom / Alison Dundes Renteln 194
Chapter 11 "What About Female Genital Mutilation?" and Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place / Richard A. Shweder 216
Chapter 12 About Women, About Culture: About Them, About Us / Martha Minow 252
Part III The Universal Human Rights Debate: Mobilization and Resistance 269
Chapter 13 Between Nationalism and Feminism: Indigenous Women, Community, and State / Maivan Clech Lam 271
Chapter 14 Neither Victim Nor Rebel: Feminism and the Morality of Gender and Family Life in a Hindu Temple Town / Usha Menon 288
Chapter 15 Circumcision Debates and Asylum Cases: Intersecting Arenas, Contested Values, and Tangled Webs / Corinne A. Kratz 309
Chapter 16 From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999 / Karen Engle 344
Part IV Conceptions of Difference and the Differences They Make 363
Chapter 17 Cultural Models of Diversity in America: The Psychology of Difference and Inclusion / Victoria C. Plaut 365
Chapter 18 The Micropolitics of Identity-Difference: Recognition and Accommodation in Everyday Life / Austin Sarat 396
Chapter 19 Plural Society and Interethnic Relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson 417
Chapter 20 Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Silence: An Analysis of Talking as a Cultural Practice / Heejung S. Kim, Hazel Rose Markus 432
Chapter 21 Color Blindness as a Barrier to Inclusion: Assimilation and Nonimmigrant Minorities / Hazel Rose Markus, Claude M. Steele, Dorothy M. Steele 453.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0871547910
OCLC:
48662325

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