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Ethnicity In Modern Africa (Hardcover)
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The fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing
importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or
tribal, criteria for classifying modern population groups. The
authors-from South Africa, the United States, South West Africa
(Namibia), Nigeria, and Scotland-cover most of Africa south of the
Sahara. They consider the range from large national population
groupings to small-scale societies attempting to maintain their
social boundaries, and discuss such topics as emergent nationalism,
ethnic divisiveness, social distance, voluntary association, and
the role of women. The first section is concerned with particular
communities, peoples, and ethnic groups, and treats traditional
tribal groupings as well as communities delineated on phenotypic
grounds. In the second section, the focus turns to modern
situations of interaction; the two major themes discussed here are
situational ethnicity and situational realignment. The third
section deals with color, one of the physical criteria of ethnic
identification; here the authors discuss the political and legal
implications of a system based on color. The last essay reports on
current changes in attitude and organization within the countries
of white-ruled southern Africa.
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