Perspectives on Ethnicity / / ed. by Regina E. Holloman, Serghei A. Arutiunov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ANDRÁSFALVY, BERTALAN,; ARUTIUNOV, S. A.,; BERDICHEWSKY, BERNARDO,; BONDARCHIK, V. K.,; BROMLEY, YU. V.,; BUSYGIN, E. P.,; CHOW, W. S.,; GANDONU, AJATO,; GANTSKAJA, O. A.,; GUPTA, MOTĪ LĀL,; GURVICH, I. S.,; HOLLOMAN, REGINA Ε.,; KOZLOV, V. I.,; KULICHENKO, Μ. I.,; MARETIN, IU. V.,; MARUYAMA, MAGOROH,; NAULKO, V. I.,; PORSHNEV, B. F.,; ROBERTS, ROBERT Ε. T.,; SALOVESH, MICHAEL,; SIVERTS, HENNING,; SOBOLENKO, E. R.,; TERENTEVA, L. N.,; TWEDDELL, COLIN E.,; ZENNER, WALTER P.,; ZORIN, Ν. V.,; ΑΡΤΕ, MAHADEV L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Arutiunov, Serghei A.,; Holloman, Regina E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (457 p.) :; 6 maps.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- General Editor’s Preface -- SECTION ONE Theoretical Issues in the Study of Ethnicity -- The Study of Ethnicity: An Overview -- Problems of Ethnicity in Soviet Ethnographic Studies -- On the Typology of Ethnic Communities -- Psychotopology and its Application to Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Professional, and Cross-Cultural Communication -- SECTION TWO Ethnicity as Identity: Individuals, Families, and Isolated Groups -- Endogenous Research and Polyocular Anthropology -- Jívaro Headhunters in a Headless Time -- Opposition as a Component of Ethnic Self- Consciousness -- Ethnicity and the Family in the Soviet Union -- New Developments in Family Life in the Countryside in Belorussia -- Interethnic Families in the National Republics in the Middle Reaches of the Volga -- Trends in Marriages Between Negroes and Whites in Chicago -- Changing Patterns of Ethnic Identity and Prestige in East Africa -- SECTION THREE Contact, Acculturation, and Boundary Maintenance -- Region, Religion, and Language: Parameters of Identity in the Process of Acculturation -- Contrasting Value Orientation of Peasant Communities and its Persistence into Modernization -- Nigeria’s 250 Ethnic Groups: Realities and Assumptions -- The Chinese Community in Canada before 1947 and Some Recent Developments -- The Tuli-Chinese Balk Line: Minimal Group Self-Identity -- Jewish Communities as Cultural Units -- Rājasthān and Rajasthänī: Switching Over from Hindī to Rājasthānī -- When Brokers Go Broke: Implications of Role Failure in Cultural Brokerage -- SECTION FOUR Ethnicity and the Future -- Class and Ethnic Consciousness: The Case of the Mapuche Indians of Chile -- Problems of Identifying Ethnic Processes -- The Peculiarities of Ethnonational Development in the Polyethnic Liberated Countries -- Contemporary Ethnic Processes in Siberia -- Socialism and Ethnic Features of Nations: The Example of the Peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- The Development of Interethnic Relations in the Ukraine -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects