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.
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