Ethnicity and the State: Political and Legal Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9781560006176 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 278 str.

Judith D. Toland

Opis

Modern states have evolved as complex political structures in which unitary forms of government maintain an uncertain equilibrium with ethnically plural societies. Historically, ruling elites have tried with little success to eradicateethnicity through genocide, bury it under accusations of tribalism, discredit it with the mind-frame of modernization, or confine it to local rather than national political arenas. This broad-ranging volume examines the dynamics of ethnic manipulation and accommodation by dominant and subordinate groups in the state-building process.

Spis treści

Introduction:; 1: Nationalism and Ethnicity: Images of Ecuadorian Indians and the Imagemakers at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century; 2: Ethnicity and the State: The Hua Miao of Southwest China; 3: Ethnicity and the Security Forces of the State: The South Asian Experience; 4: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Role of the Intellectual; 5: Ethnicity and the State in Northern Ireland; 6: Batak Heritage and the Indonesian State: Print Literacy and the Construction of Ethnic Cultures in Indonesia; 7: Ethnicity and State-Building: The Case of the Palestinians in the Middle East; 8: Jewish Ethnicity in Israel: Ideologies, Policies, and Outcomes; 9: Conclusion: Ethnicity, the State, and Moral Order

O autorze

Judith D. Toland