Ethnicity and nationalism / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Ethnic groups.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

x, 199 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002.

Contents:

Ethnicity, race and nation 5

Ethnicity and class 7

The current concern with ethnicity 8

From tribe to ethnic group 10

Kinds of ethnic relations 13

Analytical concepts and 'native' concepts 16

2. Ethnic classification: Us and Them 19

The ecology of the city 19

The melting-pot metaphor 20

Communicating cultural difference 21

Stereotyping 23

Folk taxonomies and social distance 25

Dichotomisation and complementarisation 27

Ethnic stigma 29

Negotiating identity 30

Ethnicity from the individual's point of view 32

What are the criteria for ethnicity? 34

3. The social organisation of cultural distinctiveness 36

Ascription as a decisive feature of ethnicity 36

Boundary maintenance 38

Boundary transcendence 39

Degrees of ethnic incorporation 40

Ethnicity as resource competition 44

Levels of ethnicity 46

The theory of plural societies 48

Ethnicity and rank 49

The interrelationship between criteria 51

Instrumentalism and its critics 53

A problem of culture 56

4. Ethnic identity and ideology 59

Order in the social universe 60

Anomalies 62

Entrepreneurs 65

Analog and digital: we and us 66

The emergence of ethnic identities 67

The creation of an ancestral identity 70

History and ideology 71

Social factors in identity processes 73

Does European identity exist? 74

What do identities do? 76

5. Ethnicity in history 78

The historical development of ethnic relations 79

Expansions of system boundaries 79

Capitalism 80

'Black' ethnogenesis 82

Indians in new worlds 83

'Ethnic revitalisation': from people to a people 85

Colonialism and migration 86

The power of naming 87

Modern education and ethnic identity 90

Ethnicity, history and culture 91

Cultural history in ethnic identity 93

6. Nationalism 96

The race to nation 96

What is nationalism? 98

The nation as a cultural community 100

The political use of cultural symbols 101

Nationalism and industrial society 103

Communications technology and nationhood 104

Nationalism as religion and as metaphoric kinship 106

The nation-state 107

Nationalism against the state 108

Nationalism and the Other 110

The problem of identity boundaries 112

Nationalism without ethnicity? 115

Nationalism and ethnicity reconsidered 119

7. Minorities and the state 121

Minorities and majorities 121

The creation of minorities in the modern world 124

Indigenous peoples 125

Territorial conflict 126

Stages in ethnogenesis 127

Factors in indigenous ethnogenesis 129

Urban minorities 131

Boundary processes 132

Does culture matter among urban migrants? 135

Identities and culture 137

Ethnicity in the US: race, class and language 138

Minorities and modernity 140

8. Identity politics, culture and rights 143

The paradox of multiculturalism 143

Liberal philosophy and multiethnic societies 146

Embedded discourses about culture and pluralism 148

Fundamentalism and ambivalence 150

Diaspora or hybridity? 152

Transnationalism and long-distance nationalism 153

The modernity of Hindutva 156

General features of identity politics 158

9. The non-ethnic 162

Current tensions in social theory 163

Changes in the social world 164

Globalisation and localisation 166

Identities and loyalties 169

Gender, ethnicity and nationhood 171

Beyond ethnicity? 173

The end of ethnicity? 174

The eye of the beholder 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.

ISBN:

0745318886

0745318878

OCLC:

49029600