Signifying Identities : Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Identities

ISBN-13: 9780415192378 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 192 str.

Anthony P. Cohen

Opis

The question of how identity is formed and what it means is a central question within anthropology. Just as significant is the concept of boundaries, the things which distinguish the identity of one group from another.

Spis treści

Introduction, Anthony P. Cohen; Part 1 Boundary; Chapter 1 Boundaries and connections, Fredrik Barth; Chapter 2 Maori and modernity, Anne Salmond; Chapter 3 Violence and the work of time, Veena Das; Part 2 Identity; Chapter 4 Aboriginality, authenticity and the Settler world, Robert Paine; Chapter 5 Peripheral wisdom, James W. Fernandez; Chapter 6 Peripheral vision, Anthony P. Cohen;

O autorze

Anthony Cohen is Professor of Social Anthropology, and Provost of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.