Rethinking ethnicity
"The first edition of Rethinking Ethnicity quickly established itself as a popular text for students of ethnicity and ethnic relations. This fully revised and updated second edition adds new material on globalization and the recent debates about whether ethnicity matters and ethnic groups actually exist. "While ethnicity - as a social construct - is imagined, its effects are far from imaginary. Jenkins draws on specific examples to demonstrate the social mechanisms that construct ethnicity and…
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- Full title :Rethinking ethnicity / Richard Jenkins.
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"The first edition of Rethinking Ethnicity quickly established itself as a popular text for students of ethnicity and ethnic relations. This fully revised and updated second edition adds new material on globalization and the recent debates about whether ethnicity matters and ethnic groups actually exist.
"While ethnicity - as a social construct - is imagined, its effects are far from imaginary. Jenkins draws on specific examples to demonstrate the social mechanisms that construct ethnicity and the consequences for people's experience. Drawing upon rich case study material, the book discusses such issues as: the 'myth' of the plural society; postmodern notions of difference; the relationship between ethnicity, 'race' and nationalism; ideology; language; violence and religion; and the everyday construction of national identity. The result is a compact, refreshing and stimulating enquiry into an indispensable concept for making sense of the contemporary world."--Publisher description.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2008.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 207 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781412935821, 1412935822, 9781412935838, 1412935830
- oclc:ocn173719693
- LC Classification:GN495.6
- Dewey Decimal:305.8
Table of Contents
Arguments -- Anthropology and ethnicity -- From tribes to ethnic groups -- Myths of pluralism -- Ethnicity etcetera -- Categorization and power -- Ideologies of identification -- Explorations -- Majority ethnicity -- The "cultural stuff" -- Violence, language, and politics -- Nations and nationalisms.
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