Ethos and Identity: Three Studies in Ethnicity

by Epstein,A.L.

• ISBN13: 9780202308432
• ISBN10: 020230843X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-03-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puzzling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leossi describes Epstein’s response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance. Originally published thirty years ago, Ethos and Identity still fascinates the twenty-first century reader. Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puzzling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leossi describes Epstein’s response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition	ix
Preface	xxi
1. Exploring Ethnic Identity	1	(112)
Introduction	1	(4)
Identity: some preliminary soundings	5	(3)
'Tribalism' on the Copperbelt	8	(8)
Tribal associations	16	(7)
'Tribe', 'class, and 'situation'	23	(4)
Urban-dwellers and tribal chiefs	27	(13)
Ethnic identity and social change in Melanesia	40	(14)
The crisis of Tolai identity	54	(7)
Aspects of Jewish identity in the United States	61	(6)
The second generation in Yankee City	67	(7)
From gilded ghetto to the suburbs	74	(10)
A 'non-Jewish' Jew?	84	(7)
Ethnicity and identity	91	(22)
2. Military Ethos and Ethnic Ranking on the Copperbelt	113	(26)
3. Identification with the Grandparents and Ethnic Identity	139	(18)
Notes	157	(11)
References	168	(7)
Name Index	175	(2)
Subject Index	177