Some of the most original thinkers explain popular theories of ethnicity—pluralism,
migration, transnationalism, etc.—in one concise volume From the horrors of ethnic …

This volume launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning, manifestations, and
significance of ethnicity in modern society and politics. The authors seek neither to celebrate …

Ethnicity has been a key concept in anthropology and sociology for many years, yet many
people still seem uncertain as to its meaning, its relevance, and its relationship to other …

Since the early 1960s there has been increasing emphasis in the social sciences on the
importance of'ethnicity'as an explanatory concept. While some scholars lament the existence …

Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is
ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical …

A second edition of any book that has 'Rethinking'in its title is vulnerable to two potentially
disconcerting responses. The first of these is the expectation that it will offer a re-rethinking …

The decade of the 1970s has marked the revival of interest in things' ethnic'Coupled with an
upsurge of literature on ethnic groups and relationships has been the appearance of a new …

Two contrasting positions on the nature of race and ethnicity have been taken or at least,
have been implicit, in the literature. Some scholars have viewed ethnic and racial group …

Theoretical debates on ethnicity suffer from a general confusion about the divergent
meanings which academics ascribe to key terms.'Primordialist'approaches include …

Partly as the result of the belated recognition that the societies we were studying had lost
their autonomy, anthropologists have recently been devoting much concern to the problem …