"Slavery and Identity narrates a peculiar sort of history of the "peculiar institution." Not about slavery per se, it looks at urban slavery in an Atlantic port city from the vantage point of enslaved Africans and their descendants, examining their self-perceptions and self-iden…
"Useful collection of essays is derived primarily from 1988 conference on East Indians in the Caribbean. Contributors are not mainly ethnographers; however, their subject matter (race relations, religious and cultural practices, etc.), and their manner of dealing with it, are es…
"Useful collection of essays is derived primarily from 1988 conference on East Indians in the Caribbean. Contributors are not mainly ethnographers; however, their subject matter (race relations, religious and cultural practices, etc.), and their manner of dealing with it, are es…
Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an art form belonging exclusively to African Americans? Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles electrified their musical g…
A work which provides a systematic examination of anthropological research on the critical issue of ethnicity. Chapters cover all aspects of ethnicity, including: approaches to ethnicity, social classification, the social organization of ethnicity, ethnic identity and ideology.
Covers Tamil Nadu, India.
"This edited volume of interdisciplinary essays considers the aspects of nation, identity, and collective experience in the notoriously divided island of Cyprus. The contributors examine the role of international politics - particularly the involvement of Greece and Turkey - and…
"In today's cosmopolitan world, ethnic and national identity has assumed an ever-increasing importance. But how is this identity formed, and how does it change over time?" "With Hellenicity, Jonathan M. Hall explores these questions in the context of ancient Greece, drawing on a…
Until quite recently, Western scholars have tended to accept the Chinese representation of non-Han groups as marginalized minorities. Dru C. Gladney challenges this simplistic view, arguing instead that the very oppositions of majority and minority, primitive and modern, are his…
This edited collection draws together for the first time leading academic commentators on critical multiculturalism from around the world. Contributors are drawn from the USA, Canada, the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The result is an international perspective on …
