Signifying Identities (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Identities
Redaktion: Cohen, Anthony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of extended papers examines the ways in which relations between national, ethnic, religious and gender groups are underpinned by each group's perceptions of their distinctive identities and of the nature of the boundaries which divide them. Questions of frontier and identity are theorised with reference to the Maori, Australian aborigines and Celtic groups. The theoretical arguments and ethnographic perspectives of this book place it at the cutting edge of contemporary anthropological scholarship on identity, with respect to the study of ethnicity, nationalism, localism, gender and indigenous peoples. It will be of value to scholars and students of social and cultural anthropology, human geography and social psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134651665
• Artikelnr.: 38265161

Autorenporträt

Anthony Cohen is Professor of Social Anthropology, and Provost of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Anthony P. Cohen
Part 1 Boundary
Chapter 1 Boundaries and connections, Fredrik Barth
Chapter 2 Maori and modernity, Anne Salmond
Chapter 3 Violence and the work of time, Veena Das
Part 2 Identity
Chapter 4 Aboriginality, authenticity and the Settler world, Robert Paine
Chapter 5 Peripheral wisdom, James W. Fernandez
Chapter 6 Peripheral vision, Anthony P. Cohen