Ethnic Groups and Boundaries
Title | Ethnic Groups and Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Fredrik Barth |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1998-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478607955 |
When originally published in Norway, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries opens with Barths invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces students to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essaysthe results of a symposium involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthropologistsintended to illustrate the application of Barths analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas, including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos.
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today
Title | Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hylland Eriksen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2020-06-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367582289 |
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today demonstrates the enduring significance of Barth's work, identifying its shortcomings and showcasing the state of the art today, fifty years after the publication of the ground-breaking original.
Redefining Race
Title | Redefining Race PDF eBook |
Author | Dina G. Okamoto |
Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2014-09-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1610448456 |
In 2012, the Pew Research Center issued a report that named Asian Americans as the “highest-income, best-educated, and fastest-growing racial group in the United States.” Despite this seemingly optimistic conclusion, over thirty Asian American advocacy groups challenged the findings. As many pointed out, the term “Asian American” itself is complicated. It currently denotes a wide range of ethnicities, national origins, and languages, and encompasses a number of significant economic and social disparities. In Redefining Race, sociologist Dina G. Okamoto traces the complex evolution of this racial designation to show how the use of “Asian American” as a panethnic label and identity has been a deliberate social achievement negotiated by members of this group themselves, rather than an organic and inevitable process. Drawing on original research and a series of interviews, Okamoto investigates how different Asian ethnic groups in the U.S. were able to create a collective identity in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Okamoto argues that a variety of broad social forces created the conditions for this developing panethnic identity. Racial segregation, for example, shaped how Asian immigrants of different national origins were distributed in similar occupations and industries. This segregation of Asians within local labor markets produced a shared experience of racial discrimination, which encouraged Asian ethnic groups to develop shared interests and identities. By constructing a panethnic label and identity, ethnic group members took part in creating their own collective histories, and in the process challenged and redefined current notions of race. The emergence of a panethnic racial identity also depended, somewhat paradoxically, on different groups organizing along distinct ethnic lines in order to gain recognition and rights from the larger society. According to Okamoto, these ethnic organizations provided the foundation necessary to build solidarity within different Asian-origin communities. Leaders and community members who created inclusive narratives and advocated policies that benefited groups beyond their own were then able to move these discrete ethnic organizations toward a panethnic model. For example, a number of ethnic-specific organizations in San Francisco expanded their services and programs to include other ethnic group members after their original constituencies dwindled. A Laotian organization included refugees from different parts of Asia, a Japanese organization began to advocate for South Asian populations, and a Chinese organization opened its doors to Filipinos and Vietnamese. As Okamoto argues, the process of building ties between ethnic communities while also recognizing ethnic diversity is the hallmark of panethnicity. Redefining Race is a groundbreaking analysis of the processes through which group boundaries are drawn and contested. In mapping the genesis of a panethnic Asian American identity, Okamoto illustrates the ways in which concepts of race continue to shape how ethnic and immigrant groups view themselves and organize for representation in the public arena.
Ethnic Boundary Making
Title | Ethnic Boundary Making PDF eBook |
Author | Andreas Wimmer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2013-02-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199927391 |
Introducing a new comparative theory of ethnicity, Andreas Wimmer shows why ethnicity matters in certain societies and contexts but not in others, and why it is sometimes associated with inequality and exclusion, with political and public debate, with closely-held identities, while in other cases ethnicity does not structure the allocation of resources, invites little political passion, and represent secondary aspects of individual identity.
Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia
Title | Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Gehan Wijeyewardene |
Publisher | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Asia, Southeastern |
ISBN | 9813035617 |
Esays on various ethic groups in mainland Southeast Asia including the Mon, Karen, Yao, Hmong, and various Tai groups.
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today
Title | Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hylland Eriksen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2018-12-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429867050 |
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.
The Anthropology of Ethnicity
Title | The Anthropology of Ethnicity PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Vermeulen |
Publisher | Het Spinhuis |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789073052970 |