Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Book by Beatrice Boufoy-Bastick

Investigates views on race and ethnicity, culture, and related policy issues, and challenges myths about the economics of race, race and mental ability, slavery, and multiculturalism in contemporary America--and around the world throughout history

In this accessible student text, Eriksen critically examines the relationship between ethniciy, class, gender and nationhood, using a wide variety of examples.

Product Description: Economist Sowell deftly refutes the key assumptions on which the Civil Rights Movement was erected, and probes fundamental racial issues such as affirmative action, busing, and women's issues, including the ERA. 3 cassettes.

Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity.

*Designed for introductory courses in Cultural Anthropology as well as sources in development and area studies courses. Modernization and ethnic conflict; the impact of development on the Orang Asli in Malaysia; Guarani agrofestry-1997 will kick-off this brand new cultural anthropology series with studies of the above three topics by leading figures in the field of anthropology. Sharply focused on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide, this series of ethnographies builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture. Part of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change Series.

Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In this book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relationships. Drawing on a wide range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and nationhood, as well as current issues of racism, globalisation and multiculturalism. Influential theories are presented and critically compared in a lucid and comprehensive manner. A core text for all students of social anthropology and related subjects, Ethnicity and Nationalism has been a leading introduction to the field since its original publication in 1993. This new edition - expanded and thoroughly revised - is indispensable to anyone seriously interested in understanding ethnic phenomena. New chapters cover recent studies of migration, cultural creolisation, racism, gender and nationalism, and the dilemmas of multiculturalism. (view table of contents)

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A distinguished historian looks at a large number of human migrations over a long period of time, considering the economic, ethnic, cultural, and social effects of immigration from a global perspective. Reprint. NYT.

From the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia to debates over multiculturalism, ethnicity has, once again, become a global preoccupation. But what exactly do we mean when we speak of ethnicity? And when and how did ethnicity become such an important area of cultural expression and identification that people are ready to die and to kill for it? Gathering the work of some of our most original thinkers, Theories of Ethnicity provides, in one convenient volume, the most probing and frequently cited considerations of such topics as the melting pot and pluralism, race and race problems, migration and marginality, assimilation and transnationalism, intermarriage, kinship and religion, boundary-construction and maintenance, and the important role of power relations for ethnicity. Contributors include such intellects as Max Weber, Carl Gustav Jung, Margaret Mead, Georg Simmel, Erik Erikson, Karl Mannheim, Fredrik Barth, and Herbert Gans. Theories of Ethnicity grounds much current sociological, cultural, and political research on ethnicity in a theoretical foundation that has heretofore been lacking, providing an important historical base for ongoing and future work on this timely subject. (view table of contents)