Ethnic Identity Creation, Conflict, and Accommodation

by Romanucci-Ross, Lola; Vos, De George; Vos, G De; Schwartz, T; Romanucci-Ross, L; Harrell, S; Roosens, E; Uchendu, V; Keyes, C; Huseby-Darvas, E; Gilliland, M.K; Obeyesekere, G; Milosz, C; Wagatsuma, H; Mead, M; Su?rez-Orozco, C; Su?rez-Orozco, M

• ISBN13: 9780761991113
• ISBN10: 0761991115
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-06
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

In this thought-provoking reader of largely new or newly revised articles, scholars link ethnicity to language, nationalism, localism, religion and other issues in various crucial areas around the globe: former Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, Sri Lanka, Southeast and East Asia, Africa and Latino communities in the United States. An important professional resource and an excellent teaching tool for courses in anthropology and ethnic studies.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	p. 7
Preface: 1995	p. 11
Ethnic Pluralism: Conflict and Accommodation	p. 15
Cultural Totemism: Ethnic Identity, Primitive and Modern	p. 48
Matrices of an Italian Identity	p. 73
Languages Defining Ethnicity in Southwest China	p. 97
Subtle "Primitives": Ethnic Formation among the Central Yaka of Zaire	p. 115
The Dilemma of Ethnicity and Polity Primacy in Black Africa	p. 125
Who Are the Tai? Reflections on the Invention of Identities	p. 136
The Search for Hungarian National Identity	p. 161
Nationalism and Ethnogenesis in the Former Yugoslavia	p. 197
On Buddhist Identity in Sri Lanka	p. 222
Vilnius, Lithuania: An Ethnic Agglomerate	p. 249
Cultural Identity and Minority Status in Japan	p. 264
Ethnicity and Anthropology in America	p. 298
Migration: Generational Discontinuities and the Making of Latino Identities	p. 321
Ethnic Identity: A Psychocultural Perspective	p. 349
Index	p. 381
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