Pluralism and the Politics of Difference State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective

by Grillo, R. D.

• ISBN13: 9780198294269
• ISBN10: 0198294263
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-14
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary 'postmodern' world, each of which vary economically, politically, and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism, the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century, trying to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.

Author Biography

Ralph Grillo is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex. He was formerly Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies (1988-93), and Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development & the Environment (1994-7).

Table of Contents

List of Tables	xi
1. Plural Societies	1	(26)
2. Pluralism and the Patrimonial State: Pre-Colonial Africa	27	(29)
3. Pragmatism against Morality: Ethnicity in the Aztec Empire	56	(19)
4. Pluralism in a Patrimonial Bureaucracy: The Ottoman Empire	75	(22)
5. Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism in the Colonial Social Order	97	(22)
6. The Jacobin Project: The Nation-State and the Enemy Within	119	(22)
7. `Nation of Many Nations'? The United States and Immigration, 1880-1930	141	(26)
8. A `magpie society'? From `Assimilation' to `Integration' in Britain and France	167	(21)
9. Multiculturalism and Beyond	188	(28)
10. Pluralism and the Postmodern Condition	216	(21)
List of References	237	(24)
Index	261