Identities : : Time, Difference and Boundaries / / ed. by Heidrun Friese.
"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relate...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Making Sense of History ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Series -- Introduction -- I: PERSPECTIVES AND CONCEPTS -- Chapter 1 Identity: Desire, Name and Difference -- Chapter 2 Identity and Selfhood as a Problématique -- Chapter 3 Personal and Collective Identity: A Conceptual Analysis -- Chapter 4 Identities of the West: Reason, Myths, Limits of Tolerance -- II: REPRESENTATION AND TRANSLATION -- Chapter 5 The Praxis of Cognition and the Representation of Difference -- Chapter 6 Constructions of Cultural Identity and Problems of Translation -- III: WOMEN AND ALTERITY -- Chapter 7 The Performance of Hysteria -- Chapter 8 The ‘Jewess Pallas Athena’ Horizons of Selfconception in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- IV: BOUNDARIES AND ETHNICITY -- Chapter 9 Collective Identity as a Dual Discursive Construction: Dominant v. Demotic Discourses of Culture and the Negotiation of Historical Memory -- Chapter 10 Historical Culture in (Post-)Colonial Context: The Genesis of National Identification Figures in Francophone Western Africa -- Chapter 11 Identity as Progress – The Longevity of Nationalism -- Chapter 12 Culture and History in Comparative Fundamentalism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | "Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781782389804 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781782389804 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Heidrun Friese. |