Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today
A Legacy of Fifty Years
- 220 pages
- English
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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today
A Legacy of Fifty Years
About this book
The publication of Fredrik Barth's Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked a milestone in the conceptualization of ethnicity and ethnic groups and opened a new field of enquiry in the social scientific study of ethnicity.
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today: A Legacy of Fifty Years demonstrates the enduring significance of the work, identifying its shortcomings and showcasing the state of the art today, fifty years after the publication of the groundbreaking original. Bringing together a team of leading contributors, all of whom have been inspired by Barth's theory and have made significant contributions of their own to the theorisation and research of ethnicity, this volume assesses the theoretical approach presented in Ethnic Groups and Boundaries, both in the context of its time and with the hindsight of the developments in the social sciences since then. It emphasizes the legacy of the original text and determines its significance, whilst identifying and elaborating on the main lines of the subsequent developments of the concept of ethnicity that were influenced by Ethnic Groups and Boundaries, but that have since developed and superseded the original. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in the concept and study of ethnicity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Introduction: ethnic groups, boundaries and beyond
- 2 Barth, ethnicity and culture
- 3 Homage to Fredrik Barth
- 4 The dangerous shoals of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: a personal account
- 5 Winners, losers and ethnic flux
- 6 Untangling Gypsy ethnic identity, thanks to Barth
- 7 Boundaries, embarrassments, and social injustice: fredrik Barth and the nation-state
- 8 From ethnos to ethnicity and back
- 9 Barth and Brexit, online, on target
- 10 Fredrik Barth and the social organization of difference
- 11 Intersectionality and situationalism: towards a (more) dynamic interpretation of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries
- 12 Beyond a boundary: flows and mixing in the Creole world
- 13 The social organization and political contestation of cultural difference: thinking comparatively about religion and language
- 14 A “hollow” legacy of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: a critique of the reading and quoting “Barth 1969”
- 15 Fredrik Barth and the study of ethnicity: reflections on ethnic identity in a world of global political, economic and cultural changes. Interview with Professor Emeritus Gunnar Haaland
- Index