Pluralism and the Politics of Difference (State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective)

ISBN-13: 9780198294269 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 288 str.

R. D. Grillo

Opis

This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary postmodern' world, each of which vary economically, politically, and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism, the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century, trying to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.

Recenzje

thoughtful and timely study ... an important feature of the book is the nuanced discussion of pluralistic systems in precolonial Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and native America.

O autorze

Ralph Grillo is Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex. He was formerly Dean of the School of African and Asian Studies (1988-93), and Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Culture, Development & the Environment (1994-7).