Ethnicity as a political resource : : conceptualizations across disciplines, regions, and periods / / edited by University of Cologne Forum "Ethnicity as a Political Resource".
How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods? This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface of the editors 7 Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource viewed by scholars from different academic disciplines 11 Ethnicity from an anthropological perspective 25 More than meets the eye 39 The universal and the particular 57 Rethinking 'race' from Asian perspectives 75 Ethnicity as social deixis 85 Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource in different regions of the world 99 Politicizing ethnicity - ethnicizing politics 107 The contestation over the indigenous in Africa 117 Ethnicity as a political resource 135 Ethnicity or nationality? 151 Introduction: Ethnicity as a political resource across different historical periods 171 Ethnicity in history 183 Political uses of ethnicity in early medieval Europe 201 The work of race in colonial Peru 209 Araucanos or 'Mapuches'? 221 Chinese in the Cuban revolution 237 Authors 253