| Description |
ix, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Premises of power in ethnic politics / Edwin N. Wilmsen -- Varieties of ethnic politics and ethnicity discourse / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Universalism, particularism, and the question of identity / Ernesto Laclau -- Thinking identities: against a theory of ethnicity / Aletta J. Norval -- Hegemony, power, and languages of contention / William Roseberry |
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-- Ethnogenesis and ethnic mobilization: a comparative perspective on a South African dilemma / John Sharp -- European concepts of nation-building / Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren -- The Nation-state in crisis and the rise of ethnonationalism / Stanley J. Tambiah -- 'The Voice of sanity getting hoarse'? Destructive processes in violent ethnic conflict / Stephen Ryan |
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-- Ethnicity, nationalism, and the politics of difference in an age of revolution / John L. Comaroff. |
| Subject |
Ethnic relations.
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Ethnicity -- Political aspects.
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National characteristics -- Political aspects.
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| Added Author |
Wilmsen, Edwin N.
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McAllister, P. A.
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| ISBN |
0226900169 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0226900177 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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