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Record Nr.

UNINA9911145495103321

Autore

Jenkins Richard <1952->

Titolo

Rethinking ethnicity / / Richard Jenkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2008

Sage Publications, 2008

ISBN

9786612119248

9781473902985

1473902983

9781446214855

1446214850

9781282119246

1282119249

9781849204934

1849204934

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 207 p.)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnicity

Group identity

Race awareness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.