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Rethinking ethnicity / Richard Jenkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Richard, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity.
- Group identity.
- Race awareness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 207 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author suggests that a major weakness of established usages is that they fail to take serious account of the local, cultural context of ethnic identity. Drawing on case studies, he shows the everyday social construction of national identity.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition; Arguments; 1 Anthropology and Ethnicity; 2 From Tribes to Ethnic Groups; 3 Myths of Pluralism; 4 Ethnicity Etcetera; 5 Categorization and Power; 6 Ideologies of Identification; Explorations; 7 Majority Ethnicity; 8 The 'Cultural Stuff'; 9 Violence, Language and Politics; 10 Nations and Nationalisms; Rethinking Ethnicity; Notes; Sources and Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-201) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612119248
- 9781473902985
- 1473902983
- 9781446214855
- 1446214850
- 9781282119246
- 1282119249
- 9781849204934
- 1849204934
- OCLC:
- 436089068
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