Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Series Preface
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• 1. What is Ethnicity?
• The term itself
• Ethnicity and race
• Ethnicity, nation and class
• The current concern with ethnicity
• From tribe to ethnic group
• So what is ethnicity?
• Kinds of ethnic relations
• Analytical concepts and ‘native’ concepts
• 2. Ethnic Classification: Us and Them
• The ecology of the city
• The melting-pot metaphor
• Communicating cultural difference
• Stereotyping
• Folk taxonomies and social distance
• Contrasting and matching
• Ethnic stigma
• Negotiating identity
• Ethnicity from the individual’s point of view
• Criteria for ethnicity
• 3. The Social Organisation of Cultural Distinctiveness
• Ascription as a decisive feature of ethnicity
• Boundary maintenance
• Boundary transcendence and fluidity
• Degrees of ethnic incorporation
• Ethnicity as resource competition
• Levels of ethnic incorporation
• The theory of plural societies
• Ethnicity and hierarchy
• The interrelationship between criteria
• Instrumentalism and its critics
• A problem of culture
• 4. Ethnic Identification and Ideology
• Order in the social universe
• Anomalies
• Entrepreneurs
• Analog and digital; we and us
• The emergence of ethnic identities
• The creation of an ancestral identity
• History and ideology
• Genetics, kinship and ethnicity
• Social factors in identity processes
• Is a European identity conceivable?
• What do identities do?
• 5. Ethnicity in History
• The historical development of ethnic relations
• Expansions of system boundaries
• Capitalism and individualisation
• The label ‘black identity’
• Indians in new worlds
• Ethnic revitalisation: from people to a people
• Colonialism and migration
• The power of naming
• Modern education and ethnic identity
• Ethnicity, history and culture
• History and myth
• 6. Nationalism
• The race to nation
• What is nationalism?
• The nation as a cultural community
• The political use of cultural symbols
• Nationalism and industrial society
• Communication technology and nationhood
• Nationalism as metaphoric kinship
• The nation-state
• Nationalism against the state
• Nationalism and the Other
• The problem of identity boundaries
• Nationalism without ethnicity?
• Nationalism and ethnicity reconsidered
• 7. Minorities and the State
• Minorities and majorities
• Minorities and the state
• The creation of minorities in the modern world
• Indigeneity
• Territorial conflict
• Stages in ethnogenesis
• Factors in indigenous ethnogenesis
• Immigrant minorities
• Boundaries and hybridity
• Culture and economics among migrants
• Identities and culture
• Ethnicity in the US: race, class and language
• Minorities and modernity
• 8. Identity Politics, Culture and Rights
• Dilemmas of ethnic diversity
• Multiculturalism and its critics
• Beyond the standard paradigm of nation-building
• Embedded discourses about culture and pluralism
• Struggles over cultural identity and social integration
• Diaspora and hybridity
• Transnationalism and long-distance nationalism
• The modernity of Hindutva
• Some generic features of identity politics
• 9. The Non-Ethnic
• Globalisation
• Social theory and the postmodern world
• Changes in the world of intergroup relations
• Globalisation and localisation
• Identities and loyalties
• Gender, ethnicity and nationhood
• Beyond ethnicity?
• The end of ethnicity?
• The eye of the beholder
• Bibliography
• Index